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Speaker 1: Already and this is this is the daily This is

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Speaker 1: the daily. Ohs oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Os. It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: the eighth of May. I'm zara, I'm lucy. Australian brothers

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Speaker 2: Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter

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Speaker 2: Road have been confirmed dead in the Mexican state of

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Speaker 2: Baja California, days after their family first raised the alarm

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Speaker 2: that they were believed missing. It's being confirmed to I

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Speaker 2: Callum and Jake Robinson are dead. Their parents have identified

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Speaker 2: their bodies after traveling from Perth to the Mexican city

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Speaker 2: of Ensinata.

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Speaker 3: Officials believe the men were attacked trying to stop their

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Speaker 3: pickup truck being stolen.

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Speaker 1: Police alleged they were murdered, possibly because theves wanted their

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Speaker 1: car tires. In today's deep dive, we'll run through everything

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Speaker 1: we know about the alleged murders and the broader conflict

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Speaker 1: in the region. But first, Sarah, what's making headlines.

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Speaker 2: The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the cash rate

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Speaker 2: unchanged at four point three five percent for the fourth

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Speaker 2: consecutive time. The RBA board said the decision was driven

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Speaker 2: by persistent inflation and a highly uncertain economic outlook. The

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Speaker 2: RBA has regularly raised interest rates over the last two

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Speaker 2: years to fight historically high inflation, which in this case

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Speaker 2: we're talking about rising prices. RBA Governor Michelle Bullock said

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Speaker 2: the board doesn't think that they'll necessarily have to tighten

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Speaker 2: rates again, but didn't rule out a future rise.

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Speaker 1: A Victorian woman arrested for allegedly poisoning four people with

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Speaker 1: mushrooms has pleaded not guilty in court. Aaron Patterson's in

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Speaker 1: laws were hospitalized after they fell sick from eating a

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Speaker 1: meal allegedly prepared by Patterson at her home in Regional

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Speaker 1: forty nine year old was charged with three counts of murder.

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Speaker 1: She was also charged with attempted murder over multiple alleged

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Speaker 1: attempts on her ex husband's life. Patterson denies all the

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Speaker 1: charges against her and will face Victoria's Supreme Court later

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Speaker 1: this month ahead of an expected trial later in the year.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has been threatened with jail time if he

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Speaker 2: continues to ignore a suppression order. The gag order was

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Speaker 2: comments during ongoing court proceedings. Trump is facing trial over

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Speaker 2: an alleged cover up of hush money payments to adult

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Speaker 2: film star Stormy Daniels. A New York judge has warned

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Speaker 2: Trump could be made to serve time behind bars if

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Speaker 2: he continues to breach the order.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, Critically endangered blue whale populations could

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Speaker 1: be bouncing back. The Australian Antarctic Division reported a likely

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Speaker 1: stable or potentially increasing population rate had been detected by

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Speaker 1: their radars. Although they're the largest animals on Earth, blue

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Speaker 1: whales are actually difficult to spot in the ocean, and

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Speaker 1: it's their sounds that scientists have been tracking. Research has

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Speaker 1: tracked a increased free quency of whale sounds, which helps

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Speaker 3: lot too. Thank you, and now back to the deep dive.

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Speaker 2: Last month, Jake and Callum Robinson, brothers from Perth, went

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Speaker 2: on a camping and a surfing trip in the Mexican

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Speaker 2: state of Baja California. They were with a friend from

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Speaker 2: confirmed dead and police alleged they were murdered. Lucy, can

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Speaker 2: you just start at the beginning of this story. It's

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Speaker 2: unfolded fairly quickly. Where does this story begin?

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Speaker 1: So let's start with kind of the wear of this story.

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Speaker 1: Baja California, as you said, is a Mexican state. It's

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Speaker 1: in the US city of San Diego, which is just

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Speaker 1: is a really well known international surfing destination. It was

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Speaker 2: And so they were going on this surfing trip. Can

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. Callum Robinson, as I said, was based

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Speaker 2: And so when did it first become clear that something

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So the first indication that Jack and Callum's family

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Speaker 1: And at first, what we know is that the specific

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Speaker 1: early assumptions were not necessarily that foul play was involved.

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Speaker 2: And it was very quickly after that when we had

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Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, So we soon heard that a woman

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Speaker 2: And I think at this point the picture became quite grim.

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Speaker 2: But then over the weekend it got even grimmerin I

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Speaker 1: authorities were pretty confident that this was Jake, Callum and Carter,

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Speaker 1: and by Sunday their families had identified them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the parents of the brothers had flown over

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Speaker 1: So Mexican police are alleging that they were killed by

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Speaker 2: As we've said, just a horrific story. And you know,

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Speaker 2: What has that been like.

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Speaker 1: The speed at which charges were laid and how quickly

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Speaker 1: has raised questions for locals. Some people have been asking

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Speaker 2: so there are clearly a few layers to this story,

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Speaker 2: of young men who went out to have a nice

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Speaker 2: a couple of GoFundMe pages that have been set up

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Speaker 1: My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud Dunda

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Speaker 1: Bungelung Caalguttin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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