Aid Deliveries Begin To Enter Gaza

Large-scale aid deliveries have reached a besieged and embattled Gaza for the first time in months; Israeli troops have boarded an aid ship carrying two Australians as it sailed towards Gaza; Australians will pay no more than $25 for selected medicines for the first time in more than 20 years; Outback Wrangler's Matt Wright has pleaded not guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice; Gwyneth Paltrow is starring in a new ad for Astronomer.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Malama podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the
traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is
recorded on.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mummamea's twice daily news podcast,
The Quikie with Your Headlines. For Monday, July twenty eight,
large scale aid deliveries have reached a besieged and embattled
Gaza for the first time in months. Sources in the
Palestinian territory say a convoy of some one hundred trucks
carrying goods for the suffering population entered the Gaza Strip

(00:43):
via the Curemshalon border crossing on Sunday. CNN footage shows
dozens of Palestinians rushing towards boxes of aid dropped by
the Jordanian and UAE militaries on Sunday. The World Health
Organization says malnutrition related deaths in the Gaza Strip have
spiked in July, a sign malnutrition is on a dangerous
trajectory in the territory. Israeli troops have boarded an AID

(01:05):
ship carrying two Australians as it sailed towards Gaza. The
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says the Handala has been attacked by
the Israeli occupation in international waters. The Israeli Foreign Ministry
says its navy stopped the vessel from illegally entering the
maritime zone of the coast of Gaza. The ministry says
the vessel is making its way to the shores of

(01:26):
Israel and all passengers are safe. Australians will pay no
more than twenty five dollars for selected medicines for the
first time in more than twenty years, under a proposal
to be brought before Parliament. It will be the second
cap on medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme introduced by
the Albanesi government in three years after it cut the
maximum price of PBS prescriptions from forty two to fifty

(01:48):
to thirty dollars. PBS medicines would be capped at seven
seventy for pensioners and concession card holders until twenty thirty.
The election promise is the Albanesi government's next priority after
it introduced childcare safety and hextet reduction legislation outback wranglers.
Matt Wright has pleaded not guilty to attempting to pervert
the course of justice more than three years after a

(02:10):
fatal helicopter crash. The reality TV star was charged following
the crash that killed co star Chris Willow Wilson in
February twenty twenty two. Right fronted the Supreme Court in
Darwin on Monday and entered not guilty please for three
counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice when
he was arraigned. The trial is scheduled to begin on
Wednesday and is expected to take four weeks hearing from

(02:32):
about twenty five witnesses. Gwyneth Paltrow is starring in a
new ad for Astronomer. Paltrow has been hired as a
temporary spokesperson for the tech company, almost a fortnight after
its married CEO Andy Byron was caught on a Coldplay
concert kiss cam with his arms around his HR executive. Paltrow,
who was married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin from two

(02:53):
thousand and three until twenty sixteen, appeared in a short
video on Astronomer's social media speaking about the company's strengths.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. I've been hired on a very
temporary basis to speak on behalf of the three hundred
plus employees at Astronomer. Yes, Astronomer is the best place
to run apatche airflow, unifying the experience of running data
mL and AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so
many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's your evening news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quikie,
Gaza is starving and political pressures are building for Australia
to act. We talk about what you can actually do
to help. Listen to the Quickie wherever you get your podcasts.