minor updates

docs/conf/australia/2024/news/announcing-speakers-schedule.rst

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 The conference website is now updated with the :doc:`schedule </conf/australia/{{year}}/schedule/>` for the main stage presentations, so you can start planning your time (and getting excited!) for the conference. 
 
-We're learning and adapting from our events from the past few years, so we're introducing a moderated Q&A session after each speaker. You'll have a chance to ask most of our speakers questions after the talk via our wonderful set of moderators.
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-Now is a great time to buy your `tickets <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/{{shortcode}}/{{year}}/tickets/>`_ if you haven't already.
+We're learning and adapting from our events from the past few years, so we're introducing a moderated Q&A session with the speaker, after each talk. You'll have a chance to ask most of our speakers questions after the talk via our wonderful set of moderators.
 
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