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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the heatwave in southern Australia · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Donna Tomorow, our Australia correspondent. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Carolin Young on Sunny Kirschell in just a second. Donna,
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  Speaker 1: good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a big heat wave coming for southeastern states.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sweating. I'm sweating now. I tell you what. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a hot one. Oh my goodness. Me
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  Speaker 2: wiping my brow as we speak. So the temperatures are
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  Speaker 2: going to stay forty degrees and above for a little
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  Speaker 2: while yet. And we know that the parts of Southeast
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  Speaker 2: Australia have really sweltered already. It is the worst heat
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  Speaker 2: wave in decades. We know that Melbourne today is going
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  Speaker 2: to see the highest maximum in seventeen years. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be wait for it, forty five degrees yesterday in
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  Speaker 2: parts of South Australia. It reached in Saduna, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: forty nine point five degrees. Now this is scorching hot,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. I mean we've got forty six point one
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  Speaker 2: in Dubbo, We've had forty eight in an area called Noona.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know some of these temperatures are around
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  Speaker 2: twenty one degrees above average, and it looks like records
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  Speaker 2: could be broken again today forty nine degrees forecast for
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  Speaker 2: Mill Drawer, which is in Victoria. That would be a
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  Speaker 2: new Victorian record because the current record is forty eight
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  Speaker 2: point eight and that was felt at Hopeton in two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and nine. Now I'm going to try to explain
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  Speaker 2: why it's so hot. Apparently, this is what's happening. A
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  Speaker 2: stationary high pressure system has anchored itself a few k's
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  Speaker 2: above New South Wales, and the wings blow away from
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  Speaker 2: high pressure apparently, and this compression process is leading to
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  Speaker 2: a rapid warming of an air mass, and that is
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  Speaker 2: causing wait for it, a dome of hot air that
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  Speaker 2: is moving very very slowly. As you can imagine, this
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  Speaker 2: is also enhancing fire risks. So many many communities across
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  Speaker 2: the Southeast States are now on extreme high alert. I
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  Speaker 2: challenge you as well.
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  Speaker 1: I challenge you don't to stand outside at midday and
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  Speaker 1: try and explain that again, you might hasten travel. How
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  Speaker 1: you hope you heating up in the charts, the music
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  Speaker 1: charts as well. Because paul this is so weird. Pauline
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  Speaker 1: Hanson has released a song and is releasing a movie
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  Speaker 1: as well, with a neighbours star Holly Valance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, this was originally released quite a while ago
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  Speaker 2: and Holly Valance was on Neighbors many many many years ago.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently, according to Pauline Hanson, Holly John did the
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  Speaker 2: chance to cover her own song, and there's an animated
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  Speaker 2: video that goes with it, and it does mock well,
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  Speaker 2: it seems to mock very much so trans people, references
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  Speaker 2: so called snowflakes and also makes fun of what Pauline
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  Speaker 2: Hanson deems as woke culture. Now she thinks it could
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  Speaker 2: even chart, and she says, wouldn't it be interesting if
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  Speaker 2: perhaps the ABC Triple j would have to play this song.
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  Speaker 2: It's from a movie she's made. This is all getting
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  Speaker 2: very interesting, isn't it a quizzical? A super progressive movie
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  Speaker 2: that the name of the film, where an individual travels
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  Speaker 2: beyond the nam bubble. It really is an interesting move
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  Speaker 2: for Pauline Hanson. She was also asked recently she believed
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  Speaker 2: she could be Prime Minister one day and she said, look,
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  Speaker 2: it would be a big ask, but she says it
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  Speaker 2: is possible. Let's see what the future holds for Pauline Hanson.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dona Donod My Australia correspondent. For more from
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