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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. A fresh inquiry into the horror

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Speaker 1: allegedly perpetrated by convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. US authorities will

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Speaker 1: investigate a compound once owned by Epstein in the state

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Speaker 1: of New Mexico. A so called truth commission will seek

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Speaker 1: to identify former staff and guests of Zoro Ranch in

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Speaker 1: order to substantiate claims of sex trafficking and abuse at

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Speaker 1: the property, as well as claims two bodies are buried there.

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Speaker 1: A twenty nineteen email contained in the so called Epstein

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Speaker 1: files from someone claiming to be a former employee of

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Speaker 1: the ranch said to quote foreign girls died from strangulation

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Speaker 1: during quote rough fetish sex at Zoro Ranch. The email

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Speaker 1: claimed they were later buried under orders from Epstein and

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Speaker 1: his co conspirator Gilen Maxwell. The truth commission will also

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Speaker 1: look into state officials who might have known about or

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Speaker 1: taken part in alleged wrongdoing at the ranch. Prominent accues

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Speaker 1: of Virginia Jufrey, who died by suicide in Perth in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Alleged Epstein trafficked her to former New

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Speaker 1: Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. He denied the allegations before he died.

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Speaker 1: Two victims who testified at the sex trafficking trial of

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Speaker 1: Epstein's companion Gilenn Maxwell, alleged in civil lawsuits they were

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Speaker 1: abused at Zoro Ranch. Epstein died in a Manhattan jail

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

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Speaker 1: Millions of files detailing the convicted pedophiles, business dealings, personal correspondence,

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Speaker 1: and alleged criminal activity have been released by the US

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice. Anti Israel author Randa abdel Fhetar will

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Speaker 1: headline the twenty twenty six Sydney Writers Festival in October.

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Speaker 1: Organizers say she was invited before her cancelation from Adelaide

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Speaker 1: Writers Week prompted a mass boycott and caused the event

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Speaker 1: to collapse. Sydney Writers' Festival artistic director and Bossip and

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Speaker 1: CEO Brooke Webb say some people might hold different views

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Speaker 1: to Abdelphatar, but they say their quote not in the

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Speaker 1: business of canceling or censoring writers. Abdelphatar will appear in

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Speaker 1: two sessions at the Sydney event, promoting her novel discipline.

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Speaker 1: Almost two hundred authors withdrew from Adelaide Writer's Week in January.

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Speaker 1: That was after its board announced Abdelfhatar had been removed

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Speaker 1: from the program. She's been invited back for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty seven event. Check out those stories live right now

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Speaker 1: at the Australian dot Com dot u and come back

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Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for a

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Speaker 1: close look at the issue that's set Australian politics on fire,

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Speaker 1: the possible return of a group of so called ISIS

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Speaker 1: brides from Syria. That's right here Thursday morning,