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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The International Olympic Committee will ban

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Speaker 1: men from competing in women's sport in time for the

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Speaker 1: next Summer Games in Los Angeles. The IOC's new president,

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Speaker 1: Zimbabwean former swimmer Kirsty Coventry, reportedly is to announce the

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Speaker 1: ban in response to a report to the IOC by

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Speaker 1: its own medical and scientific director, Jane Thornton, said there

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Speaker 1: were undeniable physical advantages for athletes who were born male,

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Speaker 1: which remained even if they had gone through hormone treatment.

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Speaker 1: In February, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning men

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Speaker 1: from women's sports. With this executive order, the war on

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Speaker 1: women's sports is over. Trump also said at the time

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Speaker 1: he would deny a visa to any transgender athlete who

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Speaker 1: wants to compete at the twenty twenty eight Olympics in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Our system D. The Times in London is

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Speaker 1: reporting the ban will also apply to athletes who are

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Speaker 1: classified DSD differences of sex development, like boxes Imman Kehlief

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Speaker 1: and Lynn Yuting, who won gold medals at the Paris

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Games. Both had been disqualified from Boxing

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Speaker 1: World Championships the previous year after boxing authorities ruled they

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Speaker 1: had failed to meet gender eligibility criteria. Imman Khalif, who

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Speaker 1: is Algerian, says she was born female and has always

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Speaker 1: identified and competed in female categories. Despite widespread reporting of

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Speaker 1: the looming ban, Olympic officials say the IOC Working Group

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Speaker 1: is continuing its discussions and no decisions have been made.

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Speaker 1: Britney Higgins is likely to be declared bankrupt less than

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Speaker 1: three months after she was ordered to pay former Senator

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Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds well over a million dollars in defamation, damages

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Speaker 1: and legal expenses. Reynolds, who was Higgins's boss at the

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Speaker 1: time she accused Bruce Lamon of rape, a claim he's

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Speaker 1: always denied, has filed a creditors petition against Higgins and

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Speaker 1: will seek to have a trustee in bankruptcy appointed to

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Speaker 1: take control of her property and financial affairs. Today marks

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Speaker 1: fifty years since Governor General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister GoF Whitlam, and modern politicians are maintaining the rage.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi said earlier this week the dismissal

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Speaker 1: was a partisan ambush. Liberal MP Julian Lisa has defended

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Speaker 1: the actions of Kerr, who he said was acting in

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Speaker 1: accordance with a widely accepted understanding of his powers as

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Speaker 1: Governor General to execute and maintain the Constitution. You can

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Speaker 1: read all our coverage of this big day for politics

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Speaker 1: in the morning.