Brittany Higgins' Baby Boy Is Undergoing Surgery In Hospital

A vigil will be held tonight to remember 19-year-old Audrey Griffin, who was allegedly murdered in Gosford; New trading restrictions are in place for Anzac Day. Here's what's open in your state; Brittany Higgins has revealed that her baby boy, Frederick, is undergoing surgery in hospital; The European Commission has fined Apple and Meta millions to enforce its digital competition rules. 

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Mamma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hi. I'm Cassandra Green from Mamma MEA's
twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Thursday,
April twenty four, a vigil will be held tonight on

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New South Wales Central Coast to remember nineteen year old
Audrey Griffin, who was allegedly murdered while trying to get
home from a night out with friends in Gosford. The
vigil will be held at five pm tonight at Terregle Beach,
with locals expected to gather on the waterfront wearing white
to show their support for the family and make a
stand against violence. Griffin's body was found partially submerged in

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Areiner Creek on the Central Coast on March twenty four.
Her alleged killer, fifty three year old Adrian Noel Torrens,
was arrested on Monday after a four week police investigation
into the rugby league and water polo player's death. Police
alleged which the pair were not known to each other,
but that there was a physical altercation at three a
m on March twenty third. Torrens was arrested on Monday

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and spent the night in custody before his matter was
briefly mentioned in Sydney's Downing Center Local Court on Tuesday.
A fundraising page has been set up to help Miss
Griffin's family with funeral costs. Police continue to appeal for
leeds related to the case. Anyone with information is urged
to contact Crime Stoppers on one eight hundred, triple three,
Triple zero. New trading restrictions are in place across New

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South Wales this ANZAC Day, with most bottle shops and
supermarkets to be closed. The legislation passed last year, but
prior to that shops and liquor stores were allowed to
open at one pm. The Endeavor Group, which operates Stan Murphy's,
BWS and Coal's, have confirmed that most of their stores
will be closed. There are exemptions for shops attached to

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the Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group, hotels and take away
sales from pubs. Western Australia will also see all bottle
shops and supermarkets closed and life exempt. Two Australian states
will see no force closures with the Act and NT
not facing any restrictions. Meanwhile, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia

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will all allow retail stores to open, while bottle shops
won't open until the afternoon. Former Liberal staffer and advocate
Brittany Higgins has revealed that her baby boy Frederick, is
undergoing surgery in hospital after welcoming her bundle of joy
on March II. The couple announced the news on Instagram,
saying that they're grateful for the access to world class
public healthcare here in Australia. The reason for little Frederick's

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surgery is not yet known. The news comes just days
after the couple shared adorable photos of their little one
on social media. For Easter, the couple went back in
July twenty twenty four at the Valley Estate in Curumbin
on Queensland's Gold Coast, and lived in France before returning
home to welcome Frederick at Easter. They called him the
best kind of Easter egg We've ever received. The EU's watchdog,

(03:07):
the European Commission, has fined Apple and Meta hundreds of
millions of euros in an effort to enforce its digital
competition rules. Apple was hit with an eight hundred and
ninety million dollar fine for preventing app makers from pointing
users to cheaper options outside of its own app store. Meanwhile,
Meta is facing a three hundred and fifty six million

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dollar fine for forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose
between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. Apple and
Meta have to comply with the decisions within sixty days
or risk penalty payments. The Commission said. The fines were
issued under the EU's Digital Markets app, a rule book
aiming to give consumers more choice and stop big tech

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companies from monopolizing certain digital markets. Both companies have indicated
they will appeal. Apple has accused the Commission of unfairly
targeting them, while Meta said they are unfairly restricting personalized advertising.
And that's your latest news headlines on tomorrow's episode of
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