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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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From The Daily Oz, I'm Lucy Tassel. I'm Emma Gillespie. It's Thursday the 7th of May. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
A group of Australian women who married ISIS fighters and their children are due to land back in the country in the coming hours. The group has been held in camps in Syria for seven years. The ABC has published footage of at least three women and five children accompanied by a man boarding a connecting flight to Melbourne from Doha.
Another plane bound for Sydney is carrying another member of the cohort. labelled by some media outlets as ISIS brides. On Wednesday, the Australian Federal Police said it was preparing to arrest some members of the group on their arrival into Australia. Potential charges include terrorism offences and crimes against humanity, including allegations of slave trading.
Police have not yet revealed how many people will be charged.
A passenger on board the cruise ship affected by an outbreak of Hantavirus has told Spanish media one of the people on board has returned to Australia. The anonymous passenger told Spanish newspaper El Pais the unknown Australian person was one of 23 people who got off the ship at an island stop on its journey from Argentina to northwest Africa and returned home from there.
Hantavirus is a dangerous infectious disease spread by rodents. Humans can contract it if they come into contact with urine or faeces from an infected rodent.
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Chapter 2: What is the situation with Australian women married to ISIS fighters?
Three people on the MV Hondias have died, while three more people have been taken off the ship and flown to the Netherlands for medical care.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced plans to force gas exporting companies to reserve 20% of their product for Australians. It comes amid public discussion of Australia's gas reserves, sparked by a Senate inquiry led by the Greens and independent Senator David Pocock. Natural gas is one of Australia's biggest resources.
Major companies such as Woodside have a deal with the government to extract the gas and sell it to other countries. These companies are meant to pay a 40% tax on the top level of their profits. However, this only applies to what is left after deducting costs.
These deductions grow in value even after the original costs have been paid off, meaning Australia doesn't see much of this tax in practice. Now the government will introduce a bill to Parliament to divert more gas to Australia. The Greens and Independents have criticised the policy, saying it will not see Australia earn more money from its own reserves.
And today's good news, and we don't do bias at TDA, but I'm going to put in my personal bias and say this is my favourite good news of the year so far.
Yay!
I think it's so cool. An American physical therapist has become the first woman to win the overall title at the Cocodona 250 Ultra Marathon. That takes place in the US state of Arizona and it's 250 miles or 400 kilometres. Oh! Yeah. The overall title means Rachel Entrekin beat all of the men and all of the women in this year's race. It comes after she won the women's race in 2024 and 2025.
She ran the distance, that's 400 kilometres, as I said, in 56 hours and nine minutes. It makes her the first woman and fourth person ever to run the course in fewer than 60 hours. The course in question takes runners up and down steep peaks for a total of 11,000 metres of elevation and through parts of the Sonoran Desert. After the race, Entrykin said simply, I feel fine.
Lucy, I'm just going to need a minute to pick my jaw up off the floor to react to this one. 50! 26 hours, 400 kilometres? Yeah. That would take me three years.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Hantavirus outbreak on cruise passengers?
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