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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. Anthony Alberzi wants a seat on

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Speaker 1: the most powerful body in world affairs, the United Nations

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Speaker 1: Security Council. Albanesi, in his first address to the UN

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Speaker 1: General Assembly as Prime Minister, called for the UN to

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Speaker 1: reform itself after Donald Trump's wild attack earlier in the week.

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Speaker 2: Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should,

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Speaker 2: too often, it's actually creating new problems for us to solve.

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Speaker 1: Albanzi said, Middle powers like Australia are crucial to the

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Speaker 1: world's peace and stability.

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Speaker 3: The United Nations is much more than an arena for

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Speaker 3: the great powers to veto each other's ambitions. In twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five, we are confronted by all manner of challenges

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Speaker 3: in old forms and new Dictators whose hold on power

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Speaker 3: derived solely from their capacity for cruelty to their own citizens,

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Speaker 3: tyrants who invade sovereign nations to further their own ambitions,

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Speaker 3: Regimes willing to crush their own people, terrorists and states

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Speaker 3: which sponsored terrorism, spreading hatred. And if ever we had

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Speaker 3: the luxury of imagining the breaches of international law were

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Speaker 3: not our concern, or that conflict and turmoil in another

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Speaker 3: part of the world could not affect us. Those days

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Speaker 3: are long gone.

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Speaker 1: Smiggle is one of Australia's most successful retailers, but behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes there's a huge drama going on. Owner Solomon Lou,

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Speaker 1: who's a billionaire, has made damaging allegations against a so

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Speaker 1: called mob of former executives at Smiggle's parent company, Premier Investments.

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Speaker 1: Lou claimed at a press conference on Thursday, there was

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Speaker 1: a culture of drinking and gambling in the workplace. This

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Speaker 1: has been denied by legal representatives for at least one

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Speaker 1: of the former execs. Check out that story live right

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Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot au and come

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Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning.