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Speaker 1: Murray olds is with US Australia correspondent Murray. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Bushfire in Victoria. This is spreading pretty fast.

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Speaker 2: Oh sure is Ryan? Yeah, very good afternoon. I think

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Speaker 2: I'm right in saying it's the first major bush fire

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Speaker 2: of the summer over here, burning in the Grampians National Park,

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Speaker 2: glorious part of the world for those who know it,

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Speaker 2: at northwestern Melbourne a couple of hours away. Started by

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Speaker 2: lightning strikes. Now early yesterday morning, so what we're talking

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Speaker 2: Eighteen hours ago authorities were saying seven o'clock on Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 2: five hundred hectares have been burned out. It's now over

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Speaker 2: five and a half thousand and seems to be growing

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Speaker 2: by the minute. It's out of control, hot, dry and

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Speaker 2: windy conditions and firefighters are heading there from other parts

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Speaker 2: of Victoria. Also talk of getting him from interstate. Nearly

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Speaker 2: fifty properties were destroyed in the same region February this year.

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Speaker 2: Locals hope it won't happen again, but it's not looking

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Speaker 2: that flash for the weekend, Ryan, more hot, dry and

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Speaker 2: windy conditions forecast and borrow and across Saturday and Sunday

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Speaker 2: in the run up to Christmas.

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Speaker 1: How's dollar and the market looking after the finn reat

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Speaker 1: decision they've cut mate.

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Speaker 2: Suffice to say, I'm glad I'm not holidaying in the

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Speaker 2: United States this Christmas. Goodness me. It's the Australian dollars

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Speaker 2: that are two year low against the US currency, sixty

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Speaker 2: two and a quarter US cents right now. Last time

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Speaker 2: I remember paying any attention was about sixty six cents,

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Speaker 2: so and that was only a week or so ago,

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Speaker 2: so it's lost an awful lot of value. Plus the

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Speaker 2: Australian share markers ban hammert as Well lost nearly two

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Speaker 2: percent of lunchtime today. The big mining companies like BHP

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Speaker 2: four to, Skew, Riot ten to all got blasted. So

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Speaker 2: to the big banks. The A and Z lost nearly

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Speaker 2: three percent, the Commonwealth Bank in Westpac down two point three,

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Speaker 2: NAB two point one. And why, as you say, the

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Speaker 2: markets have factored in just two cuts to the official

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Speaker 2: US interest rates next year they were tipping four So

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Speaker 2: I mean, smarter minds that mine might have to work

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Speaker 2: this stuff out. But suffice to say, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of unhappiness. They already got to cut twice and not

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Speaker 2: four times, which is why the poor al Australian South

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Speaker 2: Pacific PESO is getting smashed.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what about speaking of getting smashed, someone is in

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Speaker 1: trouble for mimicking or ripping off Raygun. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Well, Rachel Raygun Gun. Of course Australia is infamous or famous,

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Speaker 2: you know. I thought, Look, Raygun made the Olympic team

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Speaker 2: and ninety nine point nine nine percent of us will

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Speaker 2: never do that. So four marks to her for doing that.

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Speaker 2: But boy her boyce, he's made a bit of a

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Speaker 2: mess of thing. Since then, there's a stand up comedian

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Speaker 2: in Sydney. I must say I'm not familiar with the

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Speaker 2: work of Steph Broadbridge, but she came out and said

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Speaker 2: she was going to produce ray Gun the Musical and

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Speaker 2: do a few moves at a stand up comedy club

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Speaker 2: in Sydney, pull a few moves out of the ray

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Speaker 2: Gun handbook and put this on stage with music. Well,

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Speaker 2: Raygun's lawyers and Reagun herself apparently not very happy. They

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Speaker 2: sent a seasoned this letter to the owner of the nightclub.

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Speaker 2: They wanted to charge the owner ten thousand dollars for

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Speaker 2: sanctioning a musical that would copy some of her Olympic

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Speaker 2: moves in Paris. Raygun's lawyers said, listen, the proposed sketch

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Speaker 2: would infringe her intellectual property. The owners came back and said, well, listen,

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Speaker 2: we've sold fifty tickets. We'll give you five hundred bucks

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Speaker 2: and you can bug her off. Steph Broadbridge, the comedian,

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Speaker 2: said that the lawyers were very worried about damaging Raygun's brand,

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Speaker 2: and then Steph says, well, look she doesn't really need

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Speaker 2: me to do that, so at this stage it's lawyers

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Speaker 2: at twenty paces. They want ten k. The nightclub owners

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Speaker 2: offered five hundred and poor old Rayguns getting smashed on

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Speaker 2: social media.

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Speaker 1: As you say, I think she did enough damage to

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Speaker 1: her own brand, Murray Murray, Thank you for that. Mariyold's

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