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Speaker 1: the news from the Australian.

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Speaker 2: From the Australian, here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, June twenty five. The Albanese government is to

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Speaker 2: tell the Aboriginal Justice Service NAJA to show leadership on

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Speaker 2: family violence. That's after The Australian's revelation its chairman beat

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Speaker 2: Defense Strategic Review has warned the debate over Peter Dutton's

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Speaker 2: nuclear energy plan has the potential to run off the

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Speaker 2: rails and turn Australians off nuclear together a threat to

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Speaker 2: at the Australian dot Com dot a U. A fresh

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Speaker 2: scandal is engulfing the UK's Conservative Party, with allegations five people,

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Speaker 2: including a police officer with links to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,

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Speaker 2: bet on the election date before Sunac announced when it

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Speaker 2: betting Labour's Keir Starmer will be PM. But there's something

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Speaker 2: about Starma, a dashing former human rights barrister that might

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Speaker 3: Hello, darling, how's it going.

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Speaker 4: Mother's trying to fix you up with some to force.

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Speaker 3: Human rights barrison, a pretty nasty beast apparently.

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Speaker 1: Who deem tong.

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Speaker 2: Maybe this time Mom had got it right.

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Speaker 4: Come on.

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Speaker 2: One of the greatest characters in modern movie history is

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Speaker 2: Diary franchise. He was a charming, handsome, almost unbearably pompous

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Speaker 5: Mother, I do not need a blind date, particularly not

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Speaker 5: some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks

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Speaker 2: His nemesis and rival for Bridget's affections was suave TV

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Speaker 4: Do you have any idea what's century we actually live in?

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Speaker 4: Are you're gonna sit outside.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna have to drag you.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to drag me.

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Speaker 2: They fall into a fountain and have the least dignified

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Speaker 3: Do you know what, mate, Because you're so obsessed with

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Speaker 3: Bridgete Jones, why don't you just marry her?

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Speaker 1: Because then she definitely shagged me. It has long been rumored,

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Speaker 1: ever since it came out that Keir Starmer was the

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Speaker 1: incredibly interesting life. He was very much a lawyer rather

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Speaker 5: I've used to run the Crown Prosecution Service. Fiber was

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Speaker 2: So he's not going to ta down the establishment.

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Speaker 1: He's definitely not going to tear down the establishment. He

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Speaker 1: He's really made a point of trying to reintroduce patriotism

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Speaker 1: He does want to make changes to the House of Lords.

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Speaker 1: another example of hope. This is not a prime minister

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Speaker 1: who's going to tear down the establishment anytime soon. This

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Speaker 2: This campaign kicked off last month in a downpour. It

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Speaker 5: Over the next few weeks, I will fight for every vote.

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Speaker 5: I will earn your trust.

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Speaker 2: And then someone with a loud speaker started blasting Sunak

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Speaker 2: with things can only get better, the nineteen nineties anthem

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Speaker 5: China is looking to dominate the twenty first century by

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Speaker 5: stealing a lead in technology and migration is being weaponized

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Speaker 2: I think your take out from his appearance in the

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Speaker 2: Now as his campaign improved it all since the beginning.

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Speaker 1: No, he's not just a drep. He's a whole stalking puddle.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's lost in the puddle. It may be

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Speaker 1: the most disastrous political campaign and modern Western politics since

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Speaker 1: what I call the basket of deplorables, right the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic,

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Speaker 1: you name it. It's been a terrible campaign and it's

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Speaker 1: is his fault. He has no eye for politics. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: That's where Sunak flew home early from D Day commemorations

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Speaker 3: Have you ever gone without something?

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Speaker 3: I mean I grot. My family emigrated here with very little,

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Speaker 1: really establish himself as a very very powerful voice. He

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Speaker 1: has made a major stumble though, I think, in that

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Speaker 1: he's basically revealed himself as soft on.

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Speaker 4: Putting hang on a second. We provoked this war, of course,

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Speaker 4: it's his fault he's used but we provoked the invasion.

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Speaker 4: And very interestingly, once again ten years ago, what I

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Speaker 4: predicted this? By the way, I'm the only person in

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Speaker 4: British politics that predicted what would happen, and of course

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Speaker 4: everyone said I was a pariah for daring to suggest it.

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Speaker 1: He said that the EU had a lot to blame

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Speaker 1: for the situation in Ukraine, and I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of traditional Tories who are very anti Russia and very

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Speaker 1: pro Ukraine may be turned off by that. So I

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Speaker 1: think that was a mistake on his part. But things

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Speaker 1: are looking good for him. He's running in Clacton, which

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Speaker 1: is a seaside town which has the second oldest population

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Speaker 1: of the electorates in Britain, so I think he'd have

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Speaker 1: a very good chance there. But famously he did say

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Speaker 1: before he decided to run in selection, which was not

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Speaker 1: a sure thing, he said, do I really want to

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Speaker 1: spend every weekend in Clacton? Well, they see what they've

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Speaker 1: WoT to say about that.

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