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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm Taylorstrano.

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Speaker 4: This is Muma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie.

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Speaker 3: It's the formal start to a.

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Speaker 4: Brand new political error in Canberra, with fresh faces, big promises,

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Speaker 4: and a heap of headlines already.

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Speaker 3: In just a few days.

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Speaker 4: Today we're taking you inside the opening week of Australia's

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Speaker 4: forty eighth parliament. Who's new, what's on the agenda, and

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Speaker 4: why things could look very different this time round. Before

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Speaker 4: we get there, here's Claire Murphy with the latest from

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Speaker 4: the Quickie newsroom for Tuesday, July twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Taylor. Australia, along with twenty four other countries, have

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Speaker 2: demanded Israel immediately end its war in the Gaza Strip,

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Speaker 2: criticizing the inhumane killing of Palestinians, including hundreds near food

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Speaker 2: distribution sites. In a joint statement from the Foreign Ministers

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Speaker 2: of Australia, France, it to Lee, Japan, the UK, Canada, Denmark,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and others said more than eight hundred Palestinians

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Speaker 2: have been killed while seeking aid, condemning what it calls

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Speaker 2: the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians.

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Speaker 2: The statement points out that the majority of those killed

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Speaker 2: were in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, which

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Speaker 2: the United States and Israel back to take over a

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Speaker 2: distribution in the Gaza strip from a network led by

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Speaker 2: the United Nations, saying the Israeli government's aid delivery model

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Speaker 2: is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Garzans of human dignity,

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Speaker 2: and that the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached

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Speaker 2: new depths. Israel's Foreign Ministry said the statement was disconnected

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Speaker 2: from reality and would send the wrong message to Hamas,

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Speaker 2: saying the statement fails to focus the pressure on Hamas

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Speaker 2: and fails to recognize Hamas's role and responsibility for the situation.

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Albnezi has slammed Mark Latham for what

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Speaker 2: he calls his repulsive views, but a picture of the

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Speaker 2: former Labour leader will remain hanging in the Federal Caucus

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Speaker 2: room despite domestic VNE violence accusations. Mister Latham is accused

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Speaker 2: by his former partner Natalie Mathews, offers sustained pattern of

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Speaker 2: abuse and degradation. The New South Wales State MP strongly

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Speaker 2: denying the untested claims made in a civil court apprehended

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Speaker 2: violence order application by Miss Matthews, saying he has broken

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Speaker 2: no laws. The Labour Caucus on Monday agreed that mister

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Speaker 2: Latham's official portrait in the Federal Party Room would remain,

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Speaker 2: but with a caption providing context. Mister Albinizi told the

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Speaker 2: to say that history has proven that judgment to be correct.

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Speaker 2: Mark Latham since has gone further and further and further

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Speaker 2: away from any values that represent mainstream Australia. The Federal

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Speaker 2: government has sent support to South Australia, which is battling

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Speaker 2: a massive toxic algill bloom that has devastated the marine environment.

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Speaker 2: The bloom was identified off South Australia's Flurio Peninsula in

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Speaker 2: Environment Minister Murray Watt said the bloom add its impacts

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Speaker 2: existing definition, despite calls from scientists, the Greens and Essay's

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Speaker 2: assistance measures to support individuals, businesses, and communities in their recovery.

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Speaker 2: Malcolm Jamal Warner, the actor who played theo Huxtable on

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Speaker 2: four in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica. Costa Rican

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Speaker 2: a Comedy in nineteen eighty six. That's your latest news headlines,

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Speaker 2: and if you're after more celebrity news, head to link

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Speaker 3: Thanks Claire.

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Speaker 4: Next, what can we expect in this first week of parliament?

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Speaker 3: The forty eighth.

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Speaker 4: Parliament of Australia kicked into gear yesterday following Labour's victory

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Speaker 3: Now, before we dive into what's on the agenda this.

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Speaker 4: Anthony Albanesi and the Labor Party won in a landslide victory,

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Speaker 3: Meantime, the Liberals not only.

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Speaker 4: Lost the election but their leader too. Peter Dutton was

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Speaker 4: unseated in his electorate of Dixon by Labor MP Ali France.

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Speaker 5: Back in twenty eighteen, I was told that Dixon was

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Speaker 4: And the Greens were left without a leader after another

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Speaker 4: Labor candidate and Sarah Whitty took Adam Banks seat of Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: I want to thank Melbourne voters for regularly giving me.

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Speaker 4: The highest vote, including in this election, and to thank

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Speaker 4: do some amazing things together. Post election, the Liberals and

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Speaker 4: Nationals had their own drama, briefly splitting up, only to

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Speaker 4: Liberals making a history by electing Susan Lee as their

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Speaker 4: what's actually happening now that school's back in session. First

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Speaker 4: off the official swearing in today where twenty four brand

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Speaker 4: new Labor MPs take the oath and give their maiden speeches.

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Speaker 4: Then it's straight down to business on Wednesday. Label will

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Speaker 4: waste no time on its flagship promises Headline Act are

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Speaker 4: one off twenty percent reduction in hexteat that means about

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Speaker 4: three million Aussies could see an average of five and

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Speaker 3: Wiped from their student loans.

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Speaker 4: Another top item for labor is childcare reform. The big

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Speaker 4: push is to make care more affordable by subsidizing it

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Speaker 4: Urgency to tighten security controls. After reports emerged of an

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Speaker 4: But what's the opposition up to, you ask, Well, all

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Speaker 4: leader after a bruising election defeat. The coalition's primary vote

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Speaker 4: But the bigger questions lingering since their May defeat is

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Speaker 4: on its housing promises. So it's exciting times ahead on

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Speaker 4: commentator and journalist Jenna Clark will be watching on excited Jenna.

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Speaker 4: This is like our super Bowl. Let's start with today,

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Speaker 4: the swearing in of new MP's is happening. There'll be

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Speaker 4: Ali France and Sarah Whitty. How do you think they're

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Speaker 1: I think that they'll have just a bundle of nerves

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Speaker 1: and excitement. And I think what I found really exciting

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Speaker 1: There was a verve in the air energy and I

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Speaker 1: because of course that red way that we saw across

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be like bwao a chair almost totally.

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Speaker 1: And I think we're going to see a really interesting

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Speaker 1: dynamic obviously not only the Prime Minister and the Opposition

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Speaker 1: Dick is re elected as Speaker, he'll have a very

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Speaker 1: tough job in his hand try to control those one

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Speaker 4: So we know that going into the forty eighth Parliament

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Speaker 3: Do you think the.

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Speaker 1: Interesting part will be in the House of Reps. In

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Speaker 1: the lower house is what everyone really watches very closely

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Speaker 1: because obviously that's where you have the main players, the

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Speaker 1: will be interesting because the Greens have quite a stronghold

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Speaker 4: Today is almost first day back at scho fool Vibes.

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Speaker 4: Everyone's getting reacquainted, catching on what they did over their holidays.

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Speaker 4: But Wednesday is where we really do get down to business.

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Speaker 4: Labour's election promise of reducing hex step by twenty percent

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Speaker 4: Are we pretty safe in imagining that this will actually pass?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Look, I think they've probably been working very hard

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Speaker 1: so they probably feel that they have a mandate, but

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Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see what else will be

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Speaker 1: on the priority list. We've seen obviously over the weekend

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Speaker 1: a lot of MPs talking about what the priority for

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Speaker 1: the government is. Education. Minister Jason Claire has probably got

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Speaker 1: a lot of heat on him at this point in

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Speaker 1: time in regard to what's going on in the childcare

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Speaker 1: sector and the horrors that we've seen unfolding not only

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Speaker 1: just the past couple of weeks, but what Adel Ferguson

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Speaker 1: think the Coalition will really need all the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: are sit on a phone hook up a text message

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Speaker 1: with US President Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So childcare, like you mentioned, is another huge focus

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Speaker 4: for what will be happening on the floor this week.

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Speaker 4: Pre election, Labor had promised to make childcare more affordable

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Speaker 4: for families, but it does seem like that sense of

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Speaker 4: urgency has really kicked up given what's been unfolding in

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Speaker 4: to be, because it almost like it was landed in

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Speaker 4: their lap those leaked Treasury documents last week.

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Speaker 3: Will they use that. Yeah, look, I.

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Speaker 1: Think that that will be an absolute gold mine if

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Speaker 1: issue not only affordability and accessibility, especially in rural and

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Speaker 1: will see I think bipartisan support, which I think we

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Speaker 1: have seen Susan Lee commit to that. I think those

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Speaker 1: Treasury documents are definitely something that they will use within

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Speaker 1: see what is thrown treasure Jim Charms's way. Apparently he's

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Speaker 1: quite relaxed about his department leaking things unreductant to the media.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of what the coalition will probably be

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Speaker 1: seen in newspoll published in The Australian on Monday, their

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Speaker 1: approval rating is the lowest since the beginning of newspoll began.

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Speaker 1: But that's not to say that labor out of the woods,

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Speaker 1: because I think everyone is looking to see how these

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Speaker 4: We talked about all eyes being on Sarah Whitty and

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Speaker 4: Ali France, but really all eyes to also on Susan Lee.

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Speaker 4: It's historic, she's the first female to lead the Liberal

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Speaker 4: Party coming into parliament with, like you said, pretty low

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Speaker 3: How does she rally the troops from here? Jeneral forget.

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Speaker 1: I think opposition leaders that are untested within the electric

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Speaker 1: before Parliament has resumed, these numbers are not shocking. Peter

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Speaker 1: Dutton had similar figures when he took the mantol So

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Speaker 1: after the twenty twenty two election. I think she talks

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Speaker 1: a big game publicly, how that looks behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: Considering they've had a breakup with a NATS and then

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Speaker 1: they reunited, it's going to be very interesting to see

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Speaker 1: if that bad blood continues, and I think we'll know

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Speaker 4: There's already so much happening in Parliament this week, but

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Speaker 4: I do just want to quickly focus on Independent Monique Ryan.

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Speaker 4: She's said to introduce a bill to lower the voting

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Speaker 4: age two sixteen. Now, this is off the back of

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Speaker 4: the UK doing something similar. There's a couple of other

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Speaker 3: How likely do you think this is to get up.

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Speaker 1: Well done to Manique Ryan for getting on the national

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to have a lot of legs,

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Speaker 1: considering there such a legislative backlog of things that are

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Speaker 1: legitimately very important for the country right now around economics, childcare, safety,

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Speaker 1: and it will be very interesting to see some of

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Speaker 1: the commentary in the media, which I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 1: of new assistant ministers, new labor backventures, new complition MPs

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Speaker 1: and independents want to talk about when they hit the

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Speaker 4: Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with

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Speaker 4: us today. The Quikie is produced by me Taylor Strado

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