Dating Profiles of Serious DV Offenders On Police Radar

Optus has apologised for a second triple-zero outage in as many weeks; High-risk domestic violence offenders can be forced to inform police when they use dating apps under new protections for abuse survivors; Sean "Diddy" Combs is reportedly anxiously waiting to learn whether he will spend a second Christmas behind bars; The Super Bowl 2026 officially has its halftime performer - Bad Bunny.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Maluma podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the
traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is
recorded on Hey I'm Ailish Delaney from Mommamea's twice daily
news podcast, The Quickie with your Headlines for Monday, September
twenty nine. Optus has apologized for a second triple zero

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outage in as many weeks, as local executives prepare for
showdown talks with the embattled telco's owners. The latest issue
is linked to a mobile phone tower in New South
Wales that affected four thy five hundred users in the
Dapdo area on Sunday between three am and twelve twenty pm.
A review by the telco has identified nine failed calls
to triple zero, but OPTAs says those affected are okay

(00:55):
and the issue has been rectified. The failure is the
second time in less than a fortnight a major Optus
adage has prevented people from accessing emergency services. Finance Minister
Katie Gallaher says the repeat incident is another discouraging sign
of Optus dropping the ball. Meanwhile, at Telstra, outage hit
customers in WA's southwest today. Police warned it was affecting

(01:16):
the ability to make triple zero calls in broad Water,
a coastal suburb about two hundred and thirty kilometers south
of Perth. High risk domestic violence offenders can be forced
to inform police when they use dating apps. Under new
protections for abuse survivors, courts may now impose serious domestic
Abuse Prevention orders to curb the behavior of perpetrators in

(01:37):
New South Wales for up to five years. Conditions could
include scheduled reporting to a police station and requirements to
notify police when they begin new intimate relationships or create
a use dating profiles. The orders apply to offenders convicted
of two or more DV offenses that carry maximum jail
terms of at least seven years, and people who have

(01:58):
been charged with a serious DV offense against a relative
or a current or former intimate partner, even if they're acquitted.
Sean Diddy Combs is reportedly anxiously awaiting to learn whether
he will see spend a second Christmas behind bars. The
rapper is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday in Manhattan
after his conviction on two counts of arranging interstate travel

(02:18):
for people engaged in prostitution. The Daily Mirror reports his
legal team and now said to be urging a federal
judge to release him before the holiday as his sentencing approaches.
Comb spent last Christmas at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, where
he's been held since his arrest in September twenty twenty four.
The charges against Comb's carry a maximum sentence of twenty years.

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The Super Bowl twenty twenty six officially has its halftime performer,
and Sorry, Swifties, it's not Taylor. Fans speculated who would
follow Kendrick Lamar's performance this year, with many theorizing Taylor
Swift had been hinting at headlining. But it's Bad Bunny,
who's set to take the stage at Levi Stadium at
the sixtieth Super Bowl in February eighth. The news comes
after Bad Bunny skipped the US and his twenty twenty

(03:02):
five twenty six concert tour because of fears US Immigration
and Customs enforcement would rate the concert venues. Freakan musician,
dedicated the announcement to those who came before him, saying,
the performances for my people, my culture, and our history.
That's your evening news. Headlines on Tuesday's episode of The Quickie,
we speak with the family of Donna Nelson, a grandmother,

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community leader, and now convicted drug smuggler, despite claims she
was the victim of a love scammer. Listen to The
Quickie wherever you get your podcasts.