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Speaker 1: Murray Old's Ozzie correspondents.

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Speaker 2: So that's hello, mus Yeah, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: He so, how does farmer die with bushfire?

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Speaker 2: He got overwhelmed by the fire. Must have been a

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Speaker 2: wind change. Police are looking at this, but there's no

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Speaker 2: suggestion that this has been suspicious in any way. They've

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Speaker 2: been I mean, look has been scoring scorching temperatures in

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Speaker 2: Western Australia. This guy is a Chapaner's sixty the local farmer,

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Speaker 2: we understand, and this happened late yesterday. He was at Rapner,

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Speaker 2: not far from Ravensthorpe for those who know Wa. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: there was a big bush fire that was threatening a

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Speaker 2: number of homes in the vicinity there and this fellow,

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Speaker 2: apparently in his sixties, he went out on a front

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Speaker 2: end loader to try and set up a firebreak and

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Speaker 2: the vehicle, as I say, was engulfed in flames and

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Speaker 2: he died at the scene. There have been sadly and bloody,

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Speaker 2: annoyingly and dreadfully a number of suspected arson fires that

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Speaker 2: have been caused by people just deliberately lighting them so

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Speaker 2: they get short shripped when locals get them. I can

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Speaker 2: assure you, what.

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Speaker 1: Do you make of the reduction and power of with

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Speaker 1: the e bikes in New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Well, the government is convinced it's going to actually have

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Speaker 2: a bit of an impact. A New South Wales is

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Speaker 2: the odd one out over here. Apparently it's the only

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Speaker 2: state and territory where you're allowed to have five hundred

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Speaker 2: watts of power in an e bike. These things apparently

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Speaker 2: capable of doing up to sixty ks an hour, and

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Speaker 2: you see kids running around with no helmet, wearing bikinis

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Speaker 2: and no shoes and they're blasting along the roads and streets.

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Speaker 2: You just think you're just crazy. So by harving a

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Speaker 2: number of watts down to two hundred and fifty, that

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Speaker 2: will halve the speed limit. Now I saw a figure

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Speaker 2: this morning. I just I had to sit down and

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Speaker 2: think about it. Six hundred and sixty thousand of these

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Speaker 2: things on the streets of New South Wales. They're apparently

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Speaker 2: very easily modified to go faster, but they can be deadly.

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Speaker 2: Five speed related deaths this year, most recently only a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks back, a sixty five year old man

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Speaker 2: out for a walk in west and Saidney he got

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Speaker 2: cleaned up in one of these things and he died.

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Speaker 2: At the scene, and not only that, Fire and Rescue

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Speaker 2: tell us there are hundreds of fires so far this year,

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Speaker 2: thermal fires, with these runaway fires, batteries being charged, altered

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Speaker 2: batteries being charged on cheap, on cheap, imported charges, or

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Speaker 2: batteries that have been modified that are also being charged,

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Speaker 2: and these things, as I say, deadly. There's been a

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Speaker 2: number of deaths here, including a couple of I think

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Speaker 2: they were from Argentina. A couple of backpackers had a

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Speaker 2: charging in their in their room and they couldn't get

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Speaker 2: out and so they died of the fire. So look,

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Speaker 2: anything they can do to make it safe for the

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Speaker 2: new Southviower's premier says, the better we know the whole

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Speaker 2: lot better we're going to be off listen.

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Speaker 1: I was interested in what this Australian, the regulator in

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Speaker 1: your part of the world, had to say about ozempic.

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Speaker 2: Is there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't quite see were they actually saying

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Speaker 1: that there is a relationship between taking ozempic and then

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Speaker 1: having suicidal tendencies very very.

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Speaker 2: Early, And that's the point that was made this morning.

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Speaker 2: We spoke to a researcher professor at the University of Sydney. So,

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Speaker 2: as you say, Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration,

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Speaker 2: has put out the safety warning, the potential risk they

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Speaker 2: say people taking a zempic of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

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Speaker 2: On the same day Heather, the World Health Organizations come

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Speaker 2: out and said, listen to Zempic's great. It's not a

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Speaker 2: magic solution to help people lose weight, but I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what, it's pretty body good at doing it, and

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Speaker 2: so you know, no worries, but doctors should take care

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Speaker 2: of prescribing it. Here's the thing. Professor Barbarat Mintz says

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Speaker 2: a zempic is more effective than any other obesity drug,

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Speaker 2: but there's still not a lot of information available. It

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Speaker 2: hasn't been around long enough. So the extent to which

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Speaker 2: people are reporting suicidal thoughts we just don't know at

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Speaker 2: this moment. But I suppose if it's considered significant enough

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Speaker 2: for the Therapeutic Goods Administration to put out this warning,

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Speaker 2: I guess someone's pretty worried about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Moz, thanks very much, really appreciate it. Murray Old's

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