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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Missy Higgins's soulful voice and her meaningful lyrics have led

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Speaker 2: her to become one of Australia's most successful musicians. She's

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Speaker 2: one's hearts of millions right across across the globe. She

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Speaker 2: has a new song called Edge of Something.

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Speaker 3: Have a listen, mother sothing got in its ship marble,

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Speaker 3: there's a fire in the middle of Muscle.

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Speaker 1: No River.

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Speaker 2: I'm a mother with the donor.

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Speaker 3: I got plenty of fight left. Everybody got a Norman name.

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Speaker 3: I'm be the one with it on by screaming from

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Speaker 3: the highest stage. Everybody got a Norman name.

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Speaker 2: So good missus. Higgins joins us. Now, good morning morning,

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Speaker 2: Hi guys, how are you very well?

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Speaker 4: Well, we're going to give you a horsey for our

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Speaker 4: Melbourne Cup.

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Speaker 2: Sweet Missy, which one have we got?

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Speaker 1: Look?

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Speaker 2: Here you get Selena, Selena. Look that song is just beautiful.

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Speaker 2: You said that Britney Higgins and Grace Tame kind of

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Speaker 2: inspired you to write this song.

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Speaker 1: M yeah, well that it was partly because of that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wrote this song for the ABC TV

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Speaker 1: show Total Control. I've written a heap of song for

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Speaker 1: them for that show. And it's for the lead who's

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Speaker 1: Deborah Mailman. There's this incredible, fierce woman who's a politician

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Speaker 1: and she walks into Parliament and really calls them out

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Speaker 1: on a lot of things. And so I wrote that

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Speaker 1: small version of it for that, and then I was

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Speaker 1: expanding it and I thought, god, it just it reminds

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Speaker 1: me so much of what of these other incredible women

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Speaker 1: who are walking into Parliament and calling out the wrongdoings.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a real kind of woman deciding to

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Speaker 1: take no shit anymore kind of song. You know. It's

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Speaker 1: inspired by you know, my mom and my daughter and

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Speaker 1: trying to be a better person, you know, for the

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Speaker 1: future that my daughter inherits too. So yeah, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of things inside there right.

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Speaker 2: So and also the new festival Wild Flowers Festival Australia.

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Speaker 2: This is the first female, all female festival. You're performing

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Speaker 2: with some incredible people as well, Casey Chambers, Kate Miller,

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Speaker 2: Hide Key, Sarah Blasco. Sounds fabulous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be amazing. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: There's I think it's the first time we've ever had

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Speaker 1: an all female tour in Australia. I was part of

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Speaker 1: Lillith's Fair, which was an American version in the nineties

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Speaker 1: and then they kind of brought it back in the

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Speaker 1: two thousands, and yeah, I loved it. I just made

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Speaker 1: lifelong friends and it's just something so powerful about a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of women kind of performing together and telling

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Speaker 1: their stories.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, has this ever been done before in the world?

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Speaker 2: Well, the Lilla Festivals, Yeah, I was just thinking that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but how it's a first for Australia. Your career is

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Speaker 2: so interesting that you're at school when you were writing

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Speaker 2: songs and it was your sister. I think that set

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Speaker 2: one off to Triple J and it all went from there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I started writing songs pretty early in my

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Speaker 1: teenage years. And then yeah, I wrote a song for

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Speaker 1: a music class. Our assignment was to write a composition

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Speaker 1: and then I recorded it onto a cassette and then

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Speaker 1: my sister sent it into Triple J a couple of

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Speaker 1: years later and at won unneersed and yeah, so that's

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Speaker 1: how my whole thing got started, really because I got

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Speaker 1: signed because Triple J put me on the radio and yeah, God,

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Speaker 1: that feels like.

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Speaker 2: A lifetime that well, yes, sentatas missye we might have

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Speaker 2: we'd have played it, we promise.

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Speaker 4: Would miss Yeah, I'm sure you were.

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Speaker 2: But five studio albums later, nine awards later. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is a lesson to kids. Do your school assignments.

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Speaker 2: You never know where it will go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the funny thing was is it was late,

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Speaker 1: and I like we'd had a week or two to

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Speaker 1: do it, and I hadn't done it. But on the

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Speaker 1: day that it was due, and so I went in

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Speaker 1: at recess and I maybe even skipped the class to

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Speaker 1: just to try and do it last minute. I was

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Speaker 1: definitely cramming last minute, so I wasn't being the model student.

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Speaker 4: Well that's great. Well, it's so great to talk to you, Missy.

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Speaker 4: And the wildfl Flower Festival sounds fantastic. I bet you

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Speaker 4: any money. The toilets will be fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not just women who'll go, but because.

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Speaker 4: I would imagine, because those festivals, the toilets are dreadful

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Speaker 4: for women and I've seen it, so I would imagine

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Speaker 4: it all female lineup, The toilets are going to.

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Speaker 2: Be fantasm Well, let's hope that would be a great

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Speaker 2: step forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the guys' toilets will probably be a

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Speaker 1: lot better than usual. Too, because there won't be many there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. I'm going to go along the festival just

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Speaker 4: for the toilets.

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Speaker 2: What an ad that is. And you can get you

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Speaker 2: can get tickets for Wildflowers Festival Australia dot com DoD

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Speaker 2: are you today, Missy is so nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, so nice to talk to you too.

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's