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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. Israel has accused Hamas of taking

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Speaker 1: the remains of a hostage out of a building in Gaza,

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Speaker 1: reburying them, and then staging a pretend discovery and excavation

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Speaker 1: for the Red Cross and photographers. The remains belonged to

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Speaker 1: murdered hostage of Fiatzafati, who was kidnapped at the Nova

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Speaker 1: Music Festival on October seven, twenty twenty three. He was

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Speaker 1: there to celebrate his twenty seventh birthday. This is the

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Speaker 1: third time Hamas has handed Israel parts of a Fiatzafhadi's body,

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Speaker 1: first in December twenty twenty three, then in March twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, when Hamas said it had discovered more remains.

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Speaker 1: Then on October twenty seven this year, Hamas provided a

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Speaker 1: third body bag, which Israel says is the one Hamas

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Speaker 1: took from a building buried under rubble and then re excavated.

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Speaker 1: The whole alleged operation was captured on an Israeli military

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Speaker 1: drone hovering high above the scene. The t Safardi family

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Speaker 1: says their grief and despair is exacerbated every time they

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Speaker 1: are forced to open the grave it comes as her

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Speaker 1: Mass claims it doesn't have the equipment or ability to

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Speaker 1: recover some hostages bodies in the rubble from the devastated territory.

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Speaker 1: The Israeli Defense Force overnight struck what it said was

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Speaker 1: her Maas infrastructure in southern Gaza after shots were allegedly

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Speaker 1: fired at Israeli troops. The International Committee of the Red

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Speaker 1: Cross says the staged discovery was unacceptable, adding the return

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Speaker 1: of remains to loved ones must not be politicized. The

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Speaker 1: Reserve Bank of Australia will have to scrap plans for

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Speaker 1: an interst rate card after an unexpected jump in inflation figures.

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Speaker 1: The central Bank's preferred measure of price rises. The trimmed mean,

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Speaker 1: rose one percent in the September quarter and three percent

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Speaker 1: year on year, while the headline Consumer Price index rose

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Speaker 1: by one point three percent. Headline inflation includes the cost

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Speaker 1: across a giant basket of goods and soar services from

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Speaker 1: housing costs to phone bills. The trimmed mean is similar,

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Speaker 1: but takes out the highest and the lowest changes. It's

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Speaker 1: designed to eliminate short term volatility, like as sudden jump

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Speaker 1: in petrol prices. The fact the trimmed mean is out

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Speaker 1: of whack with the RBA's expectations means interest rates will

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Speaker 1: stay high. The Reserve Bank was thought to be heading

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Speaker 1: for another cut in the cash rate in February, but

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Speaker 1: it's now likely to be in May before mortgagees get

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Speaker 1: any relief. The Reserve Bank Board meets on Monday and

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and will announce its decision on the cash rate

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Speaker 1: at two thirty pm on Tuesday. You can be the

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Speaker 1: com dot a U plus. Come back to the Front

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Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for the latest in the

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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew disaster. Now it's emerged. He hosted a trio

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Speaker 1: of sex offenders Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Gilline Maxwell

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Speaker 1: at his home, the thirty Room Palace Royal Lodge on

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Speaker 1: the Windsor Asta eight in two thousand and six. The

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Speaker 1: trio were then Prince Andrew's guests at Windsor Castle for

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Speaker 1: Princess Beatrice's eighteenth birthday party. All the details in tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: episode of the Front