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Speaker 1: Daily OS. It is Friday, the sixth of September. I'm Billy,

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Speaker 1: I'm Zara Alexa Leary. If you have watched any of

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Speaker 1: the Paralympics over the past week, you have likely heard

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Speaker 1: She's won two gold medals, broken two world records, well

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Speaker 2: Of all of us at home.

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Speaker 1: So who is Alexa Leary and how did she become

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Speaker 1: one of Australia's most treasured Paralympians this year. We'll tell

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Speaker 1: you her story in today's Deep Dive. But before we

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Speaker 1: get there, Zara, what is making headlines?

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Speaker 3: The Australian Electoral Commission the eight has announced plans to

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Speaker 3: modify the boundaries of eleven federal electoral divisions in Victoria

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Speaker 3: and officially abolish the seat of Higgins. It means Labour

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Speaker 3: MP Michelle and Under Raja will lose her seat in

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Speaker 3: Melbourne's Inner Southwest. Ananda Rajah won the historically safe Liberal

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Speaker 3: is now uncertain. The move also means that independent candidates

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Speaker 3: Lucy Bradlough and bronwin Bach, who you might have heard

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Speaker 3: they'll now be unable to run in this seat. The

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Speaker 3: pair said they are working on a revised campaign. Residents

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Speaker 1: The Greens have won their first ever seat in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Parliament, in a Darwin electorate previously held by

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Speaker 1: former Chief Minister Natasha Files. It comes two weeks after

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Speaker 1: the territory's election was won by the Country Liberal Party.

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Speaker 1: Green's candidate at Cat McNamara beat Files in the seat

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Speaker 3: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hip back against mass

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Speaker 3: hostages than me. No one will preach to me on

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Speaker 3: this issue. It comes after the bodies of six hostages

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Speaker 3: abducted by humas on October seven were recovered in a

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, University of Queensland scientists have discovered

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Speaker 1: a filter to extract per and polyphlorical chemicals aka forever

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Speaker 1: chemicals from drinking water. That means that the separated chemicals

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Speaker 1: can then be used for renewable batteries. A team of

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Speaker 1: scientist doctor Chang Zang said quote, if this testing goes

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Speaker 1: as we believe it will, we hope to reach commercial

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Speaker 1: production within three years. Before we get to today's deep dive,

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Speaker 3: I've been following Alexi Leary on social media for I

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Speaker 3: And I don't want to ruin too much. But if

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Speaker 3: Can you just give us a bit of a sense

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Speaker 1: Her personality is just unbelievably infectious. It is hard not

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Speaker 3: the story as to how Alexi Leary became a Paralympian

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Speaker 1: So Alexa wasn't always a swimmer, or at least she

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Speaker 3: Okay, so twenty twenty three was when Alexa Leary was

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Speaker 2: You just qualified for your first Paralympics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Lex, WHOA.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I'm like, it's the Crepes for me.

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