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Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the seventeenth of September. Here's what's making headlines

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Speaker 1: this evening.

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Speaker 2: Opposition leader Susan Lee has described debt as an issue

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Speaker 2: of intergenerational fairness and warned Australians have become too reliant

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Speaker 2: on welfare. Speaking at the Committee for Economic Development of

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Speaker 2: Australia in Melbourne, Lee outlined the principles that will guide

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Speaker 2: coalition policy into the next election, including a targeted approach

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Speaker 2: to government subsidies and benefit payments. The opposition leader said

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Speaker 2: the government quote should not be paying benefits to high

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Speaker 2: income households and that support should be a safety net,

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Speaker 2: not a hammock. Lee did not cite specific cuts or

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Speaker 2: policy proposals during her first major economic address as Opposition leader. However,

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Speaker 2: she claimed improvements can be made without attacking welfare or

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Speaker 2: health or school funding to ensure the next generation inherits opportunity,

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Speaker 2: not death.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza City after Israel launched

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Speaker 1: its ground offensive on Tuesday. The Israeli Defense Forces the IDF,

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Speaker 1: which says its targeting hamas issued evacuation warnings telling Palestinians

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Speaker 1: to go to a humanitarian zone in Almwasi in South Gaza.

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Speaker 1: The UN said Israel had not taken effective steps to

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Speaker 1: ensure the safety of those forced to move there, and

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Speaker 1: that it had not provided enough space or services for

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Speaker 1: those already there. UN officials have previously accused the IDF

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Speaker 1: of targeting displaced Palestinians tents in Almwasi quote killing entire families.

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Speaker 1: Israel's latest military action has been met with widespread condemnation

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Speaker 1: from international governments and families of hostages taken by Hamas.

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Speaker 1: The offensive began shortly after a UN Commission of Inquiry

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Speaker 1: announced it had found Israel was carrying out a genocide

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Speaker 1: of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has called the finding fake.

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Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump has revealed his planning to meet

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Speaker 2: with Anthony Albanzi when the Prime Minister visits the US

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Speaker 2: next week. Trump was criticizing an Australian journalist when he

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Speaker 2: hinted at a face to face talk with the PM.

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Speaker 2: ABC America's editor John Lyons was questioning Trump about his

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Speaker 2: business ventures and White House spending when the President accused

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Speaker 2: Lyons of hurting Australia very much. Right now. Your leader

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Speaker 2: is coming over to see me very soon, Trump said,

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Speaker 2: adding I'm going to tell him about you. You set

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Speaker 2: a very bad tone. The comment is the closest recent

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Speaker 2: indicator out of the US that a Trump Albanesi meeting

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Speaker 2: will go ahead. The Prime Minister is expected to meet

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Speaker 2: with his US counterpart in New York ahead of a

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Speaker 2: meeting of the UN General Assembly.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news in an Australian first, pet owners

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Speaker 1: can now book tickets to bring their small dogs and

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Speaker 1: cats on Virgin Australia flights. The airline's Pets in Cabin

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Speaker 1: service officially on sale today ahead of the first services

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Speaker 1: departing on the sixteenth of October. Virgin said it's launching

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Speaker 1: the initiative across select flights between Melbourne, the Gold Coast

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Speaker 1: and the Sunshine Coast before expanding the service to all

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Speaker 1: eligible domestic flights in twenty twenty six. Virgin CEO Dave

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Speaker 1: Emerson said, quote, with almost seventy percent of households owning

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Speaker 1: a pet, we expect the service to be embraced by

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Speaker 1: pet lovers all around the country. A limit of four

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Speaker 1: pets per flight will be permitted and will cost passengers

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Speaker 1: and extra one hundred and forty nine dollars per animal.

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Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily os newsroom. If you're

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Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to, you can check

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Speaker 2: out today's deep dive, where we discuss the latest tensions

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Speaker 2: between Russia and NATO members.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with another deep dive tomorrow morning, but

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Speaker 1: until then, have a great evening.

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