'Quiet Australians' May Deliver Dutton Victory

Peter Dutton is relying on "quiet Australians" to get him over the line as a former political insider says protest votes could offer him a path to The Lodge; A prominent Indigenous leader has accused politicians of using Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as a political football; A regional disability provider has admitted to serious safety breaches after the death of a young Aboriginal woman; Almost one in seven women and girls skip sport because of their period; A man who allegedly broke into the home of television star Asher Keddie has been bailed.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listing to a Mummamea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the
traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is
recorded on Hi. I'm Nicole Madigan from Mummamea's twice daily
news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Tuesday, April
twenty nine. Peter Dutton is relying on quiet Australians to

(00:32):
get him over the line, as a former political insider
says protest votes could offer him a path to the lodge.
The Opposition is seeking to defy a campaign trail pole
slump that's delivered Labour a significant lead, although the Coalition
maintains its internal numbers are more optimistic than the public ones.
Dutton will hit more than two dozen seats in the

(00:53):
final week of campaigning ahead of Saturday's poll. He says
internal polling was positive and that gave him great confidence
for the election result. The term quiet Australians was famously
used by former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison after his
unexpected victory in twenty nineteen, which defied poles that consistently

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predicted a Labour victory. A prominent Indigenous leader has accused
politicians of using Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as
a political football. After two opposition leaders criticized welcome to
Country ceremonies, Federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton placed himself in
the center of the debate after a small group of hecklers,

(01:33):
including self described neo Nazi Jacob Person, disrupted an ANZAC
dawn service in Melbourne. Dutton has described welcome to Country
ceremonies as overused. Days after Uncle Mark Brown was booed
on ANZAC Day, he repeated the criticism on Monday, adding
that he believed welcome to Country ceremonies should only happen

(01:54):
at very significant events. When asked whether he would consider
ANZAC Day significant enough, the opposition leader said no and
that the day was about veterans. But Pat Anderson, co
chair of the ULARU Dialogue, says a welcome to Country
isn't about welcoming people to Australia. Rather, it's about welcoming

(02:15):
people to Aboriginal cultures, lands and seas. She says it's
not up to politicians to regulate when and how a
Welcome to Country should happen, and was sad to see
the displays of disrespect on the ANZAC weekend. Dutton's Victorian counterpart,
Brad Batton, echoed the opposition leader's sentiments, saying constant welcome
to Country ceremonies risked it becoming disingenuous. A regional disability

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provider has admitted to serious safety breaches after the death
of a young Aboriginal woman who was badly burned in
a bathtub. Kaya Lucas suffered burns to almost half her
body when she was bathed in a home in Orange
in central New South Wales by two workers from NDIS
provider live Better in twenty twenty two. Lucas was removed

(03:03):
from the bath with her skin peeling, and a temperature
control panel showed the water was sixty degrees celsius rather
than the usual maximum setting of forty two degrees. The
twenty eight year old, who had conditions that left her
nonverbal and with thin skin, died in a Sydney hospital
five days later. Live Better was fined a record one

(03:24):
point eight million dollars in the federal court in twenty
twenty four after the NDIS Quality and Safeguard's Commission took
action against it over multiple failures to comply with its
standards of care. The care provider pleaded guilty in the
New South Wales District Court to a criminal charge in
a separate case brought by Safe Work New South Wales,

(03:45):
admitting one count of breaching its primary duty of health
and safety regarding lucas. Almost one in seven women and
girls skipped sport because of their period. According to a
new Victorian University study, around ninety percent worried about leakage,
while more than seventy percent felt generally anxious about their

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period when playing sport. The research shows that providing free
period products at sporting facilities could remove one barrier to
playing sport and help drive up membership. The study's lead researcher,
Claire Henland, says such a measure would be a small
cost with a big return, not only for keeping girls
in sport, but also reducing the need to replace those

(04:26):
who drop out. Some sporting clubs do provide free products,
but it's not mandatory. In Australia, where just thirty two
percent of women and girls age over fifteen play sport.
A man who allegedly broke into the home of television
star Asha Ketty before being tackled by her husband has
been bailed. James Powell is accused of breaking into the

(04:47):
couple's garage and attempting to steal a forty thousand dollars motorbike.
Ketty heard a noise before discovering the thief and screamed
for her husband, acclaimed artist Vincent Van Taso, who gave chase,
ultimately restraining the accused until police arrived. Powell lost consciousness
shortly after police arrested him and paramedics had to be

(05:08):
called to take him to hospital with a drug overdose,
possibly brought on by the physical confrontation. Powell appeared before
Melbourne Magistrates Court via video link on Monday, where he
was bailed. That's your latest News headlines on tomorrow's episode
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