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Speaker 3: Oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Ods. It's Saturday,

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Speaker 4: the twenty ninth of November. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm belief

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Speaker 4: it Simon's. We are back in your ears this weekend

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Speaker 4: to bring you another hit of good news. But this

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Speaker 4: time we're looking back at the feel good stories that

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Speaker 4: have made us smile the most this year with tda's

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five Good News.

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Speaker 3: Awards, the inaugural tda's Good News Awards. What a moment

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Speaker 3: this is. It is a pleasure to be with you

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Speaker 3: for it. I can't wait to get into it. And

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Speaker 3: we're starting off with the Good News Award for Science,

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Speaker 3: your favorite topic, one of.

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Speaker 4: My favorite topics. It has to be said, it also

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Speaker 4: has to be acknowledged, this is one of the most

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Speaker 4: competitive categories when it comes to good news. Hawk eyed

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Speaker 4: good News readers and listeners. If you're in the daily

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Speaker 4: newsletter often you will know that science good news generates

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Speaker 4: a lot of content for us at the Daily Ohs,

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Speaker 4: and there are always amazing things happening in the world

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Speaker 4: of science. But I think this year we have to

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Speaker 4: give the award to medical discoveries because it's been another

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Speaker 4: massive year for health and biology. We're talking breakthrough treatments

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Speaker 4: for cancer, rabies, HIV, malaria, Alzheimer's, just to name a few.

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Speaker 3: Quick question, what was the judging process of these awards?

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Speaker 4: The judging process was very rigorous. We went through a

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Speaker 4: full board of unqualified judge singular me.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, and it was you amazing.

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Speaker 3: And I think what is particularly exciting about this space

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Speaker 3: AI for good because they think. What I have noticed

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Speaker 3: that AI is behind lots of these discoveries.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, And it's nice to talk about the innovations

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Speaker 4: maybe there are some scarier conversations going on. But one

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Speaker 4: example of AI being used for good is in the UK,

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Speaker 4: where the National Health Service has been trialing an AI

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Speaker 3: And I know Australian researchers have also been doing amazing

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Speaker 4: Well, this is an amazing team that's been working on

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Speaker 4: a new treatment for HIV that uses mRNA technology. So

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Speaker 4: similar to COVID vaccines and the findings have been so

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Speaker 3: Wow, I missed that one this year. A big win

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Speaker 3: for the Aussis. And speaking of Ozzi's we Love Sport, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeap and look, I might be biased, Billy, but I

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Speaker 4: The Good News Sport Award has to go to him,

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Speaker 3: It was such a massive moment. And in the months

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Speaker 4: Journey exactly Billy very well said, and speaking of Ozzie Legends,

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Speaker 4: I do want to give our Ossie Entertainment Good News

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Speaker 4: Award to magda's Advanski. She was inducted into the TV

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Speaker 4: in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Australian television. What's

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Speaker 4: another award for Magda? But she deserves it.

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Speaker 3: Oh and I'm pretty sure she actually sent us a

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Speaker 2: We do love Magda though, if you're listening.

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Speaker 3: But okay, we are going to keep the good times

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Speaker 3: coming with this next award, which is for the best

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Speaker 3: climate good news story of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: This one goes to Global Renewables, which overtook coal as

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Speaker 4: This year, SOLA grew by a record thirty one percent.

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Speaker 4: Win generation grew by eight percent in the first half

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Speaker 4: think tank Ember and renewable energies generated more power than

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to take a moment for the strange

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Speaker 3: and the wonderful. Which headline is getting your award for

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Speaker 3: the weirdest good news moment of twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much for asking Billy. This one

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Speaker 4: a quote debilitating psychedelic mushroom high the Flow.

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Speaker 4: like all good news stories, it was a happy ending

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Speaker 4: because thankfully they were located by the incredible work of

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Speaker 3: I was not expecting mushrooms to come up in this podcast.

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Speaker 3: a different kind of mushroom.

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Speaker 4: of lighter pr for the musher mushroom have had a

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Speaker 3: Okay, moving on, last, but not least, the overall best

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Speaker 3: news story of twenty twenty five. Drum roll, please Emma

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Speaker 3: take us away.

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Speaker 4: This one was a no brainer, Billy. It's a story

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Speaker 4: Congratulations to our best in show that the Sausage Dog.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I do remember this.

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Speaker 4: Valerie was rescued after five hundred and twenty nine days

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Speaker 4: lost on Kangaroo Island. Rescue crews worked so hard for

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Speaker 4: absolutely thrilled and deeply relieved that Valerie is finally safe

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Speaker 4: that Valerie, Josh and Georgia were featured for a recent

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Speaker 3: It was like a miracle. Literally, it was like a miracle.

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Speaker 5: Hello, listens, give me that.

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Speaker 3: We are just so grateful, just so grateful for everyone

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Speaker 2: Where you going, Valerie going home? Mummy's not gone without leap.

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Speaker 3: If you haven't seen the footage of Valerie walking through

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Speaker 3: That's it for the train training five Good News Awards.

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