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Speaker 2: Coming off Australians stranded in the Middle East, jobs figures
Speaker 2: remain steady, and the nation's longest married couple. I'm Katie
Speaker 2: Fuller with this afternoon's nine News podcast. A small group
Speaker 2: of Australians has been evacuated from Israel by Land as
Speaker 2: the Middle East teitas on the brink of a larger conflict.
Speaker 2: Nearly three thousand people have asked the federal government for
Speaker 2: help leaving Israel and Iran. Iran has launched another round
Speaker 2: of retaliatory airstrikes, reportedly hitting a hospital in southern Israel.
Speaker 2: It's not yet clear whether anyone has been hurt. Analysts
Speaker 2: believe it's unlikely Australia would be drawn into a broader
Speaker 2: conflict in the Middle East if the United States decides
Speaker 2: to attack Iran, and Donald Trump is weighing up whether
Speaker 2: to bomb a key nuclear site center for Arab and
Speaker 2: Islamic studies. Research scholar Ian Palmitter says any Australian involvement
Speaker 2: could cause political backlash at home.
Speaker 3: There wouldn't be a lot of Australian support for getting
Speaker 3: involved with the United States in a war in the
Speaker 3: Middle East. Military adventures in the Middle East are not
Speaker 3: popular with Australians who have been hurt too badly via
Speaker 3: them over the years.
Speaker 2: Latest unemployment figures could see the Reserve Bank cut interest
Speaker 2: rates again when it meets next month. The nation's jobless
Speaker 2: rate has remained steady at four point one percent. DATO
Speaker 2: shows more workers have moved into full time roles, but
Speaker 2: KPMG chief economist Brendanrien has told twogb's Clinton Maynard government
Speaker 2: jobs are doing most of the heavy lifting while the
Speaker 2: private sector struggles.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of employment in the private side of
Speaker 4: the economy, in the market side of the economy, and
Speaker 4: interest rates I think too high to type, and what
Speaker 4: we need to do is drop those down to stimulate
Speaker 4: businesses making investment activity.
Speaker 2: Three men accused of making millions selling fake luxury goods
Speaker 2: online will remain behind bars overnight is they wait to
Speaker 2: learn if they'll be released on bail. Police alleged they
Speaker 2: made almost ten million dollars selling the knockoff products on
Speaker 2: social media over a number of years. Organized crime Squad
Speaker 2: commander Peter Foe says the goods seized as part of
Speaker 2: the investigation will now be analyzed.
Speaker 5: We've got a large amount of good to hear, well
Speaker 5: over a thousand different items that we're seized, and they're
Speaker 5: analyzed and certified as being copies or fake or fraudulent,
Speaker 5: and then it's highly likely they'll be destroyed at some stage.
Speaker 2: Aaron Patterson's defense barrister is continuing his closing arguments in
Speaker 2: the mushroom murder trial nine reporter penelopely Ish.
Speaker 6: The defense claims the accused mushroom killer didn't have the
Speaker 6: opportunity to switch sim cards and phones while police were
Speaker 6: raiding her whole following the fatal lunch Aaron Patterson's barrister
Speaker 6: arguing homicide detectives was supervising her except for when she
Speaker 6: was allowed to make a phone call to get legal advice,
Speaker 6: telling the jury that would mean the phone would have
Speaker 6: to have been hidden in the same room police happened
Speaker 6: to take her too to communicate with lawyers. Colin Mandy
Speaker 6: sc arguing why would the accused go to the effort
Speaker 6: of factory resetting a phone to hand it to police
Speaker 6: that officers would realize it had been reset, telling the
Speaker 6: jury her version of events that the phone was damaged
Speaker 6: made more sense. The prosecution alled she deliberately handed police
Speaker 6: a dummy phone known as Phone B that it had
Speaker 6: been factory reset a few days before the search the
Speaker 6: day of the police search, and was then reset remotely
Speaker 6: while it was being held by police in more Well.
Speaker 6: Penelope ear Schneews.
Speaker 2: Bruce Lherman has dialed into court to plead not guilty
Speaker 2: to car theft. The former political staffer is accused of
Speaker 2: stealing a land cruiser near Hobart last year. The sole
Speaker 2: survivor of the Air India plane crash his farewell tiest
Speaker 2: brother who was killed in the crash, Vishwalsh Kimar Ramesh,
Speaker 2: was released from hospital a few days ago. He helped
Speaker 2: to carry the coffin if his brother, who was on
Speaker 2: the opposite side of the plane when it came down.
Speaker 2: Common viral infections can increase the risk of heart attack
Speaker 2: and stroke in the short term. Research out at the
Speaker 2: University of Melbourne suggests inflammation in the body following RSB
Speaker 2: covid all the flu can cause blood clots, but Professor
Speaker 2: Jim Buttery says there's a simple way to protect yourself.
Speaker 7: We know that vaccine decrease the severity of the infection
Speaker 7: should you catch it, and we think that decreasing severity,
Speaker 7: not only as for your respiratory symptoms, but also in
Speaker 7: the inflammation that occurs elsewhere in the body.
Speaker 2: And lifelong sweethearts are being recognized as the nation's longest
Speaker 2: married couple. Delma and Frank Murray from Newcastle tied. They're
Speaker 2: not eighty years ago. Frank says they have shared love
Speaker 2: of adventures and have learned to be tolerant of one another.
Speaker 1: Was the only one ever. I knew it when I
Speaker 1: was seventeen. I think she was sick then and we
Speaker 1: went from there. We've been together every think.
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Speaker 2: Blues half back Nathan Cleary has admitted he took a
Speaker 2: groin injury into his sides lost to the Maroons in
Speaker 2: Origin Too, the Panthers champion was below his best and
Speaker 2: stood aside from goal kicking duties. He says the injury
Speaker 2: happened late in the Blues preparations.
Speaker 8: Essentially just did a goal kicking in Cap'n's run and
Speaker 8: it was just a little bit fruscating, but yeah, I
Speaker 8: can't come in the physios and they for a lot
Speaker 8: of time into me that sort of cap'n's run and
Speaker 8: then in the morning of the game and yeah, they
Speaker 8: didn't feel too bad.
Speaker 2: At Blues duo Zach Lomax and Jerome Leui have avoided
Speaker 2: suspension after being reported for foul play. Collingwood has ruled
Speaker 2: out Braydon Maynard for Saturday night's clash with Sint Kilda
Speaker 2: at Marvel Stadium. Coach Craig McCrae says the vice captain
Speaker 2: isn't quite ready to return from a foot injury. Joseph
Speaker 2: Swalee has been named in a thirty six man Wallaby
Speaker 2: squad for next month's Test match against Fiji. The former
Speaker 2: NRL star has overcome a fractured jaw and David Warner
Speaker 2: has scored just four off seven balls for the Seattle
Speaker 2: Orcas in the Major League Cricket. They were thrashed by
Speaker 2: seven wickets by New York I'm Katie Fuller and That's
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