Hundred Of Thousands Of Students Kept Home As Teachers Strike For Better Conditions

Thousands of Queensland’s teachers are striking today; Anthony Albanese has discussed Palestinian statehood with France’s president ahead of a UN meeting in September; Jasveen Sangha will go to trial over the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry in September; 80 years ago today Hiroshima was the target of a nuclear bomb; Disgraced rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is seeking a pardon from US President Donald Trump; How Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne died.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hi. I'm Cassandra Green from Mummamea's twice
daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Friday,
August six. Thousands of Queensland's teachers are striking today, with

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almost six hundred thousand students at state schools impacted. Last week,
union members voted for a twenty four hour strike after
rejecting a state government payoffer. The strike action, the first
since two thousand and nine, is part of a campaign
for safer classrooms and solutions to the teacher shortage. The
Queensland Council of Unions urged parents to support the strike

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on the day by keeping their children home. It comes
as the Queensland Government failed to secure a new teacher
pay deal following seventeen meetings in the last five months.
The government's offer of an eight percent increase divided over
the next three years was reject did by the teachers'
union In June. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi and France's

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President Emmanuel Macron have made plans to meet at a
UN gathering where Palestinian statehood and the crisis in Gaza
will be major issues. The two leaders spoke overnight, two
weeks from when France confirmed its intention to recognize Palestine
at a UN meeting in September. Canada and the UK
have also stated their intentions to recognize Palestine under certain conditions.

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These include the exit of Hermas from the strip, the
reform of the Palestinian Authority, and the demilitarization of the state.
Both Albanesi and Macron discussed their support of a two
state solution during the call, reiterating their commitment to get
aid to civilians in Gaza. More than one hundred and
forty of the total one hundred and ninety three UN

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states already recognize the state of Palestine, including Spain and Ireland.
The PM says Australia's recognition is a matter of when,
not if, but he hasn't yet set a timeline. He's
previously said that any UN resolution would require her Mass
to play no role in the future of the nation.
The woman charge was selling Matthew Perry the ketemine that

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killed him, will go to trial in September. Jaswine Sanga's
case is the only one going to trial out of
the multiple people who were charged relating to the friends
Starr's death. The other defendants of all reach plea agreements.
Her trial will start on September twenty three, where prosecutors
will allege Sanga, also known as the Ketamine Queen, distributed
five counts of ketamine to Perry, including one that resulted

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in his death. She's pleaded not guilty and has been
held in federal custody since her arrest in twenty twenty four.
Sanga was one of the two biggest targets in Perry's
death investigation, along with his doctor Salvador Placentia, who pleaded
guilty last month. His personal assistant, a friend, and another
doctor also entered guilty. Please all are awaiting sentencing. Perry

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was found dead in his home in October twenty twenty three,
aged just fifty four. He had been undergoing ketamine therapy
through his regular doctor as a treatment for depression, but
prosecutors say that when the doctors wouldn't give Perry as
much as he wanted, he turned to other sources. Eighty
years ago today, the western Japanese city of Hiroshima was
the target of a nuclear bomb. The bombing of Hiroshima

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on August sixth, nineteen forty five destroyed the city, killing
one hundred and forty thousand people. A second bomb dropped
on Nagasaki three days later killed seventy thousand more. Japan
surrendered from World War II on August fifteen. The anniversary
comes at a time when possession of nuclear weapons as
a deterrence measure is increasingly supported by the international community,

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including Japan. Disgraced rapper Seawan Diddy Combs is seeking a
pardon from US President Donald Trump. Lawyer Nicole Westmoreland told
CNN Diddy's legal team had reached out and had conversations
about the pardon. President Trump told conservative American news channel
Newsmax that he'd first been friendly with Combs, but that

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the rapper turn host style when he ran for office.
When asked if that meant he was not inclined to
pardon him, Trump proplied that he would say so. Last month,
a New York jury found Comb's guilty of two counts
of transportation to engage in prostitution, each of which carries
a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. He was
acquitted of more serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Since

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the verdict, his lawyers have repeatedly tried to get him
out on bail until sentencing, arguing that the jail in
which has been held the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
is dangerous. Comes is due to be sentenced on October three.
And now we know how Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osborne died.
According to his death certificate obtained by the Sun on Tuesday,

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he died from cardiac arrest, coronary heart disease and Parkinson's
disease on July twenty second. His family previously confirmed the
news of his passing in a statement saying Ozzie died
surrounded by love. That's your evening news headlines. On tomorrow's
episode of The quick we look at the rise of
Australia's social media gambling influences, plus why a new parenting

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