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Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Billy Fitzsimon.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the fourteenth of January. Here's what's making headlines

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Speaker 1: this evening.

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Speaker 2: There are calls to demolish the Bondei Beach footbridge, where

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Speaker 2: two gunmen killed fifteen people at a Hunaker celebration on

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Speaker 2: the fourteenth of December. New South Wales Premier Chris min

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Speaker 2: supports its removal, warning the pedestrian bridge could serve as

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Speaker 2: a grulish reminder of the terror attack. However, Minn said

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Speaker 2: victims and families should have the final say. The structure

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Speaker 2: is one of two Heritage listed bridges over the Bondei

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Speaker 2: Beach car Park. A twenty twenty four report found the

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Speaker 2: bridges were reaching the end of their useful life, prompting

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Speaker 2: discussion about whether to restore or demolish them. Any changes

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Speaker 2: will only occur after consultation with the Jewish community and

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Speaker 2: other local residents. Waverley Council said.

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Speaker 1: Author Randa Abdelfatta has taken a step towards suing the

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Speaker 1: South Australian premier for defamation after she was removed from

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Speaker 1: a writer's festival lineup. Peter Malanowskis supported the Adelaide Festival's

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Speaker 1: decision to block Abdelfhatdter, a vocal critic of Israel who

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Speaker 1: has been accused of anti Semitism, from speaking at its

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Riders Week. The move prompted around one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty writers to boycott the event and led

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Speaker 1: to this year's Adelaide Writers Week being canceled altogether. Abdolphatda

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Speaker 1: claims Malanowskis has made comments about her that amounts to

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Speaker 1: a quote vicious personal assault by what she called the

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Speaker 1: highest public official in South Australia. She's announced her lawyers

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Speaker 1: have issued a concerns notice under the Defamation Act against

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Speaker 1: Premier Peter Malanowskis. This is an initial required step before

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Speaker 1: formal legal proceedings can be launched.

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Speaker 2: Greenland's Prime minister said his nation would rather remain part

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Speaker 2: of Denmark than become a territory of the United States.

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Speaker 2: It comes as US President Donald Trump continues his push

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Speaker 2: to control of the Arctic Island, which is an autonomous

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Speaker 2: territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Danish and Greenlandic

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Speaker 2: foreign ministers will meet US Vice President JD Vance and

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Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday Local time. The

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Speaker 2: talks were scheduled after Trump recently stepped up threats to

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Speaker 2: take over Greenland, but the island's Prime minister has told

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Speaker 2: a press conference that Greenland is not for sale and

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Speaker 2: does not want to join the US. Trump has called

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Speaker 2: Greenland vital for US security and claims that United States

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Speaker 2: must own it to prevent Russia or China from occupying

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Speaker 2: the strategically located and mineral's rich territory in the future.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, a Nepalese British Army veteran has

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Speaker 1: become the first double above knee amputee to climb the

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Speaker 1: Seven Continents highest peaks. Harry Buddhamagar was deployed to Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: in twenty ten when he lost both his legs to

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Speaker 1: an improvised explosive device otherwise known as an IE. After

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Speaker 1: years of training and grueling climbs, the mountain near conquered

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Speaker 1: his seventh and final peak in Antarctica this month. He

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Speaker 1: climbed nearly five thousand meters over three days to reach

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Speaker 1: the summit of Mount Vincent. Magah said quote, A disability

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Speaker 1: shouldn't limit the size of your dream. Anything is possible

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Speaker 1: with enough determination.

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Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Dallyio's newsroom. If you're looking

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Speaker 2: for something else, you can catch up on this morning's

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Speaker 2: deep dive, where we unpack the Adelaide Writers Week controversy.

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

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Speaker 1: have a great night.

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Speaker 2: Bye. My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud

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Speaker 2: Arunda Bungelung Calcottin woman from Gadigl Country. The Daily oz

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Speaker 2: acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on the lands of

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Speaker 2: the Gadigel people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and

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Speaker 2: Torres Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to

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Speaker 2: the first peoples of these countries, both past and present,