Midday Edition: 03 May 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks Heavy Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS In
this update. Australia's federal election polls will start to open
in the next hour. Record numbers of Australians have voted early,
with current Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi tip to win. Australian
National University political scientist Jill Shepherd told the ABC the

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campaigns have been lackluster.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
They probably thinking well, if you're going to turn out
to vote early, then what do you want from us.
We're not going to give you a splashy campaign with
promises detailed detailed policy costings.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Prince Harry says he's gutted at the outcome of his
latest legal battle. The Duke of Sussex has lost his
appeal against a ruling the Home Office with fair and
giving him different levels of taxpayer funded protection. His security
was downgraded in twenty twenty after he stopped being a
working royal. Prince Harry says they thought the appeal would
go their way. He says a decision has been both

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surprise and unsurprising, and for the time being it's impossible
for him to take his family back to the UK.
Harry says he wants to reconcile with his family and
doesn't know how much longer the king has left so
Bob Jones is being remembered as a big personality with
a colorful life following his death at the age of
eighty five. The high profile businessman, property leader and former

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politician died at his Wellington home after a brief illness.
He's written numerous books and is being remembered for his
quick wit and at times his controversies. News Talks hed
B political correspondent Barry Soper says he was never afraid
to share his opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
He never liked much to do with technology, and if
you were at a dinner table with him with a
cell phone, the likelihood is that the cell phone would
end up on the water Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's out on food safety as advising people not to
collect or consume shellfish gathered in the western Firth of
Thames region because of the presence of paralytic shellfish toxins.
It says routine tests on shellfish from wy Mango Point
have shown levels of paralytic shellfish toxins over the safe limit.
The warning extends from the mouth of the White Takarurdu

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River up to Pacatoa Island and across to the midpoint
of the Firth. That's news in sport history for Formula
one driver Kimmie Antonelli. After taking pole position for tomorrow
morning's Miami Grand Prix sprint race, the eighteen year old
Mercedes driver became the youngest polesitter in any format in
F one. Antonelli is thrilled with his feet.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm feeling over the moon. You know. I did not
expect it, but I was feeling good in the car.
I was able to improve lab by lap and find
that consistency and yeah, that lab came all together and
I'm super super happy with that.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Liam Lawson will start from fourteenth on the grid for
tomorrow's sprint race. Black Fans coach Cory Sweeney has leaped
to the defense of the New World Series format seven's
coaching legends at Gordon Kitchens has labeled the reduced season
and three tier structure is confusing and backwards, but Sweeney
says a condensed season with a major finals weekend, we'll

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create more pressure cooker situations that sports. I'm Sandy Hodge.
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