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Good morning, I'm Alice Stempster. And

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I'm Siobhan Moore in Macfarlane. It's

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Wednesday the 10th of April. In

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your Squeeze today, saluting

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a new defence chief, extending

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Alice's youth curfew, the Matildas

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are bruised, and don't forget

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your manners. This

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is your Squeeze today. Siobhan,

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fresh off appointing our new Governor

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General last week, PM Anthony Albanese

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yesterday named Vice Admiral David Johnston

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as the new chief of the

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Defence Force. He will replace General

0:58

Angus Campbell when he starts on

1:00

the 10th of July. Yeah, and

1:02

it's worth noting that his appointment

1:04

is a big deal for the

1:06

Navy, Alice, because they haven't had

1:08

one of their own take up

1:10

the role in 22 years. The

1:14

appointment does still need approval from

1:16

outgoing Governor General David Hurley, but

1:19

it's basically a done deal because

1:21

Albanese says Johnston's selection was an

1:23

easy decision and Defence Minister

1:26

Richard Miles has called him a

1:28

safe pair of hands. And for

1:30

his part, Johnston says he's very conscious

1:32

of the responsibility that comes with the

1:34

role. And Siobhan, that is

1:36

probably the case, because he's had a long

1:38

career with the Navy since he joined back

1:41

in 1978. Can

1:44

you give us some of the top lines?

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Sure. So he served on a couple

1:48

of warships, the HMAS Adelaide and HMAS

1:51

Newcastle. He's also been on some

1:53

deployments, including Tofiji ahead of the

1:55

2006 coup and

1:57

also the Middle East to lead operations.

2:00

The in Iraq and Afghanistan. He

2:02

was also appointed Vice Chief of

2:04

the Defence Force in that twenty

2:06

eighteen, so he's really well regarded

2:08

and he felt the only one

2:10

as several others have also secured

2:12

new roles including three women them

2:14

Sell Mcguinness, Natasha Fox, and Season

2:17

Coil. They'll all be serving in

2:19

senior leadership roles, which Mouse is

2:21

called a very significant step forward.

2:23

And that's because this time last

2:25

year the had never been a

2:27

woman who had served at the

2:29

level of a three star. And

2:32

as the What's on Johnston's agenda,

2:34

the big issue for him will

2:36

be Orcas. That's the regional security

2:38

pact with all of the Uk

2:40

and the Us. And as we

2:42

spoke about on Monday, it was

2:44

confirmed yesterday that Japan is being

2:47

considered as a new member of

2:49

Orcas, along with other allies like

2:51

Canada. that something that China says

2:53

it's gravely concerned about. Spike

2:57

in a lot about the ongoing

3:00

ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas,

3:02

but yesterday Hamas said that the

3:04

lightest Israeli proposal failed to make

3:07

their demands. But they do say

3:09

they'll continue to review the authors

3:12

That's happened alongside Israeli Pm Benjamin

3:14

Netanyahu. saying a start date for

3:16

Israel's offensive in the city of

3:19

Rafa has been says yes, that

3:21

Netanyahu didn't say when the date

3:24

ease. Instead, he said that the

3:26

ground offensive is necessary. For and

3:28

these a his words, the elimination

3:31

of the terrorist battalions their biggest

3:33

is A Pm. Anthony Albanese was

3:35

among several world leaders urging against

3:38

a ground invasion and the concern

3:40

is that more than one point

3:42

five million Palestinian civilians is sheltering

3:44

in Rafah and increased military action

3:47

could cause the thirty three sales

3:49

and death toll to rise. And

3:51

as those discussions continue, some Palestinians

3:54

have been returning to the city

3:56

of Khan Yunis. aussie israeli forces

3:58

withdrew from there on Monday. There

4:00

are plenty of photos floating around

4:03

online, but what they've found, Siobhan,

4:05

is that many of their homes

4:07

have been completely destroyed by the

4:09

fighting. There's

4:12

been an update to the situation

4:14

in Alice Springs, Siobhan. Its youth

4:16

curfew has been extended for six

4:18

days over the remainder of the

4:20

territory's school holidays. That's after the

4:22

government and police force heard feedback

4:24

from local residents. And it'll

4:27

take it up to 6 a.m. next

4:29

Tuesday. Yeah, so just to recap, that

4:31

curfew was put in place in response

4:33

to a wave of violent crime after

4:35

the death of a local teenager last

4:37

month. And it saw people

4:39

aged under 18 years old barred from the

4:41

town CBD between the hours of 6

4:44

p.m. and 6 a.m. daily. The

4:47

NT's chief minister, Eva Lawler,

4:49

says she has anecdotal evidence

4:51

that it's displaying very encouraging

4:53

results. But that is

4:55

despite some local elders criticising it.

4:58

Yeah, Lawler also said yesterday that her government

5:01

will accept 15 of the 18 recommendations

5:04

that were put forth in a

5:06

new Northern Territory police review. But

5:08

she warned that it would come at significant

5:10

cost. She said we'll see

5:12

unprecedented resources provided to the

5:14

Northern Territory police force. A

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you. The

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on the Paralympics a kicking off on the

6:02

twenty sixth of July to Sing has evaded

6:04

the reminder and just a few months out

6:07

from that them it's who does a dealing

6:09

with injuries to more of their star players.

6:11

So. Of course we already know that Captain

6:14

Sam com ruptured her a Ceo in January

6:16

and she's not looking very likely to be

6:18

lighting up had. Boots Emeritus.

6:21

But now Katrina Gory and clear

6:23

on till also under question. Coach

6:25

Tony Gustafsson said yesterday that both

6:27

players will sit out this morning's

6:29

friendly match against Mexico and he's

6:31

going to be testing at a

6:33

new roster. Yeah, he reckons they're

6:36

taking the chance to use the

6:38

game against Mexico to learn about

6:40

ourselves and where we are on

6:42

this journey. And the captain that's

6:44

definitely also kept it positive. She

6:46

said the team is feeling comfortable

6:48

and confident. Yeah, it's gonna. Be

6:50

interesting to see and to fingers crossed they get

6:52

out there and do the business. That game will

6:55

be on at ten am Eastern time and you

6:57

can check it out. On channel. Seven

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man. And yet we really, it doesn't surprise

7:05

me at all because you have excellent

7:07

manners. You're selling. It

7:09

sounds like Ten Said is not following

7:12

in your footsteps. Alice I I really

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crazy about and as I really am

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and unfortunately a poll of two thousand

7:18

young people in the Uk so that

7:21

sixty percent of twelve to twenty seven

7:23

year olds reckon traditional table manners octopus

7:25

third, as things like having your elbows

7:27

off the table and holding your knife

7:30

and fork in a particular way which

7:32

is far as I'm concerned, should be

7:34

mandatory for such. Clearly, I'm not. I'm

7:36

dead set on. But

7:39

we're still more than a third of

7:41

them also admitted to using their foreign

7:43

at the table which is my absolute

7:45

has he has and the death of

7:47

any kind of romance or fun added

7:49

the in Cydia. Well, you're not alone.

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suborn One edited advisor agrees with you.

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the main aim of polishing up

7:57

your manners is not to look

7:59

great. The races or a the

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casual which might be offensive to

8:03

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