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Alleged Childcare Paedophile Charged With More Offences & Spotify Wrapped Reveals Aussie Failure

DEC 4, 20256 MIN
The Quicky

Alleged Childcare Paedophile Charged With More Offences & Spotify Wrapped Reveals Aussie Failure

DEC 4, 20256 MIN

Description

Melbourne detectives have issued 83 additional charges against alleged childcare paedophile Joshua Dale Brown - bringing the total number of offences he faces to 156; The Victorian government has approved more than $4 billion in cuts to the state's public service following a long-awaited independent review, aiming to rein in its ballooning wage bill and debt; 14 photos and videos of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands have been publicly released by Democrats in the House Oversight Committee; The doctor who illegally supplied Friends star Matthew Perry with Ketamine, the drug that caused the actor’s fatal overdose in 2023, has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison; and Spotify's annual data dump also revealed a sobering trend for the Australian music scene, indicating a reluctance among local listeners to embrace new homegrown talent.

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Host/Producer: Gemma Donahoe 

Audio Production: Lu Hill

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