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Speaker 1: From The Daily Os.

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Speaker 2: I'm Lucy Tassel, I'm Emma Gillespie.

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Speaker 3: It's Thursday, the fourth of December. Here's what's making headlines

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Speaker 3: this evening.

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Speaker 2: Four more children have been identified as alleged victims of

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Speaker 2: a former childcare worker accused of more than one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty counts of sexual abuse. Earlier this year, Victorian

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Speaker 2: man Joshua Brown was arrested and charged with dozens of

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Speaker 2: counts of child sexual abuse, with alleged victims ranging from

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Speaker 2: five months to two years old at the time of

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Speaker 2: the offenses. The four children announced on Thursday bring Brown's

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Speaker 2: total alleged victims to twelve. Their families have been notified

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Speaker 2: and provided with support services. Police said the latest charges

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Speaker 2: relates to the four additional alleged victims, but also further

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Speaker 2: charges linked to the initial eight alleged victims. At the

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Speaker 2: time of recording, Brown's alleged defending has been linked to

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Speaker 2: twenty three childcare centers in Victoria. If this story has

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Speaker 2: raised any issues for you, help is always available at

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Speaker 2: one eight hundred respect on one eight hundred seven three

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Speaker 2: seven seven three two.

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Speaker 1: Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lherman has pleaded guilty to a

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Speaker 1: charge of taking a car and driving it without consent

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Speaker 1: in Tasmania, a day after an appeal of his failed

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Speaker 1: defamation case was rejected. Lehman did not appear in person

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Speaker 1: in court on Thursday, with his lawyer Zali Burrows telling

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Speaker 1: media outside the hearing that he was quote not in

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Speaker 1: a good way. Lehman originally faced a charge of car theft. However,

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Speaker 1: prosecutors downgraded the charge at the beginning of proceedings, leading

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Speaker 1: to Lherman pleading guilty. He will avoid a criminal conviction

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Speaker 1: if he complies with a twelvemonth good behavior bond. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Burrows has flagged Lehman is thinking about escalating his appeal

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Speaker 1: in the defamation case to the High Court, which would

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Speaker 1: first need to consider whether or not to hear his

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Speaker 1: case at all.

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Speaker 2: Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians in southern Gaza today,

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Speaker 2: according to Hamas controlled authorities in the enclave. In a

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Speaker 2: post to x, the Israeli Defense Forces said it had

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Speaker 2: carried out a strike after Hamas violated the ceasefire by

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Speaker 2: attacking and injuring five of its soldiers. The Palestinian death

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Speaker 2: toll has surpassed seventy thousand since October twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: According to Gaza's health ministry, Israel has carried out multiple

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Speaker 2: deadly strikes with soldiers killing hundreds of Palestinians since the

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Speaker 2: ceasefire came into effect in October. Both Israel and Hamas

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Speaker 2: have repeatedly accused each other of breaking the ceasefire. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Israel has reiterated its refusal to open the border between

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Speaker 2: Gaza and Egypt, which it says hinges on Hamas returning

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Speaker 2: the remains of all the hostages it took in October

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Hamas has previously said it is facing

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Speaker 2: difficulties locating bodies of the hostages under the rubble caused

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Speaker 2: by Israel's bombardment of Gaza.

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Speaker 3: And today's good news, a man has been unexpectedly cured

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Speaker 3: of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant, even though

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Speaker 3: the cells he received were not actually resistant to the disease.

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Speaker 3: HIV is an incurable disease that attacks the immune system,

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Speaker 3: transmitted through bodily fluids. The number of people confirmed to

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Speaker 3: have been completely cured of the virus with stem cells

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Speaker 3: is now seven, two of whom, including this man, received

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Speaker 3: cells without a genetic mutation previously believed to be essential

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Speaker 3: to the process. The man received the treatment after he

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Speaker 3: was diagnosed with leukemia in twenty fifteen, separately having already

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Speaker 3: been diagnosed with HIV. Scientists believe the process of chemotherapy

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Speaker 3: and stem cells for leukemia effectively destroyed and rebuilt his

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Speaker 3: immune system, so that years down the track, he continues

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Speaker 3: to test negative for HIV.

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Speaker 2: What a fascinating story. Thank you, Lucy. That is the

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Speaker 2: latest from The Dailyov's news room for today. But if

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Speaker 2: you are looking for something else to leave too, you

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Speaker 2: can check out this morning's deep dive on Bruce Lemmon's

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Speaker 2: failed appeal of the defamation case he lost last year.

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

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Speaker 1: until then, have a good night.

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Speaker 3: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda

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Speaker 3: Bungelung Kalkadin woman from Gadigol Country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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Speaker 3: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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Speaker 3: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and torrest

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Speaker 3: Rate island and nations. We pay our respects to the

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Speaker 3: first peoples of these countries, both past and present,