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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. Aboriginal protest groups said they didn't

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Speaker 1: want anti Israel demonstrators to gate crash their Australia Day protests,

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Speaker 1: but it's happened anyway, with chance of Interfada kicking off

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Speaker 1: at rallies to mark the two hundred and thirty eighth

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Speaker 1: anniversary of the first Fleet's arrival at Sydney Cove. While

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Speaker 1: most families around Australia celebrate a sweltering Australia Day with

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Speaker 1: beach swims, picnics and a lot of prawns, several cities

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Speaker 1: have seen demonstrators carrying signs about Invasion Day. An Australian

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Speaker 1: flag was burnt in Brisbane and rival protesters scuffled in Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: It's not a relaxing holiday for Susan Lee, with the

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Speaker 1: Liberal leader sweating on two leadership rivals who want her

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Speaker 1: job and neither is offering any public support. Andrew Hasty

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Speaker 1: said today he wouldn't be commenting on the party's crisis

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Speaker 1: after it lost its Nationals coalition partner last week. Opposition

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Speaker 1: Defense spokesman Angus Taylor repeatedly refused to rule out making

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Speaker 1: a move on the leadership, saying only the party needs

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Speaker 1: to do better. The Australian's Lachlan Leming repeatedly asked Taylor

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Speaker 1: about the leadership. He said he couldn't comment because he's

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Speaker 1: a senior member of Shadow Cabinet.

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Speaker 2: And one last time, are you can you explicitly rule

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Speaker 2: out a leadership all the chatters it's yourself and Andrew

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Speaker 2: Hasty needs short it out on the right.

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Speaker 3: You'll keep trying plugging And as you know of a

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Speaker 3: member of Shadow Cabinet and I one of those obligations

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Speaker 3: and we made a point about those obligations cabinet in

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Speaker 3: recent day.

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Speaker 4: Susan hasn't and I think that's important.

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Speaker 3: We have to be united if we're going to succeed.

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Speaker 4: This is incredibly important, and I think honoring that unity,

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Speaker 4: making sure we demonstrate to Australians that we have a

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Speaker 4: sense of purpose that is aligned with their aspirations, that's

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Speaker 4: the key right now.

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Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at The Australian

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front

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Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our close look at

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Speaker 1: the year's most interesting media story. What happens when TV

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Speaker 1: stars and the Titans who own the networks go rogue.