Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Pauline Hanson says she's not trying
Speaker 1: to return to the days of the White Australia policy,
Speaker 1: but she is on board with the Trump administration's approach
Speaker 1: to illegal migrants. The One Nation leader was speaking at
Speaker 1: a business breakfast in Perth.
Speaker 2: Trump said, okay, alls in the country to legly, I'll
Speaker 2: actually give him one way to here of the country,
Speaker 2: and he said, then you can apply to come back
Speaker 2: in some time later. But if you don't go, he said,
Speaker 2: and when I do, you will never give back to
Speaker 2: the country again. I have a two million talked out
Speaker 2: one way to good and six hundred thousand lad around up.
Speaker 1: Fine, I'm goin.
Speaker 2: Just write why I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: Andy burnhams launched into his new job as British Prime
Speaker 1: Minister with retribution and big promises. Burnham's vowing to end
Speaker 1: rough sleeping and says he has big financial announcements coming,
Speaker 1: possibly including rent controls and death duties. His first big
Speaker 1: announcement is removing the VAT sales tax on energy bills.
Speaker 1: Burnham named John Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer. That's
Speaker 1: the second most powerful job in government and one that
Speaker 1: several senior figures were jockeying for in recent weeks. That's
Speaker 1: potentially good news for Britain's defense hawks. Heally quit as
Speaker 1: Defense Secretary last month, furious over former Prime Minister Keir
Speaker 1: Starmer's refusal to dramatically ramp up defense spending. His resignation
Speaker 1: was critical to the end of Starmer's Prime ministership. The
Speaker 1: new Defense Secretary is Where's streeting. He's gone from being
Speaker 1: a potential leadership rival to one of Burnham's trusted insiders.
Speaker 1: Ed Miliband will be Foreign Secretary and hardliner. Shabana Mahmud
Speaker 1: remains in place as Home Secretary, where she's driving tough
Speaker 1: Australian style immigration reforms. Colorful. Former Minister Angela Rayner, who
Speaker 1: lost her job as Housing Secretary over attack scandal six
Speaker 1: months ago, is back in her old job. Burnham sacked
Speaker 1: nine ministers who were close to Stalma, including Foreign Secretary
Speaker 1: David Lammy, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Attorney General Richard Hermer, and
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland Secretary Hillary ben Tuesday Morning's episode of The
Speaker 1: Front is all about PM Burnham with our UK politics
Speaker 1: expert Richard Ferguson, who as always manages to make it
Speaker 1: very funny. You can check out that episode by scrolling
Speaker 1: back in your feed. Christopher Nolan's epic movie adaptation of
Speaker 1: The Odyssey raked in almost four hundred million Australian dollars
Speaker 1: at the global box office on its opening weekend. That
Speaker 1: makes it Nolan's biggest global debut since The Dark Knight
Speaker 1: Rises in twenty twelve, and it's the biggest opening weekend
Speaker 1: in Australian cinemas so far this year. You can hear
Speaker 1: our critics verdict on The Odyssey by scrolling back to
Speaker 1: Saturday's episode. Check out those stories live right now at
Speaker 1: the Australian dot com dot au and come back to
Speaker 1: the front first thing in the morning for I'll look
Speaker 1: at the latest from the Middle East, where a band
Speaker 1: of rebels in Yemen known as the Hoofies are threatening
Speaker 1: to shake up the world's oil supplies yet again by
Speaker 1: blocking yet another shipping route. That's right here, Wednesday morning,