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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 special category of Bravery honors

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Speaker 1: will be awarded in twenty twenty six to heroes of

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Speaker 1: the Bondai Beach anti Semitic terror attacks, with the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister saying first responders and volunteers deserve to be recognized

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Speaker 1: for their heroism. Anthony Albniezi has also formally invited Israeli

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Speaker 1: President Isak Hertzog to visit Australia in the new year.

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Parliament has passed tough new gun laws

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Speaker 1: and restrictions on hate speech, including chanting globalize the Interfada.

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Speaker 1: The Labour Government and Liberal Party teamed up to force

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Speaker 1: the laws through against opposition from the Greens, One Nation,

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Speaker 1: Shooters Party and Nationals. Fresh allegations have arisen about the

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Speaker 1: connections between convicted child sex offender Gilain Maxwell and Andrew

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Speaker 1: Mountbatten Windsor, the brother of King Charles previously known as

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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, the Duke of r York. A huge tranch

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Speaker 1: of documents related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein released

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Speaker 1: by the United States Department of Justice contains correspondence involving

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Speaker 1: Epstein's partner, Gillann Maxwell, which referred to procuring intelligent, pretty

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Speaker 1: fun girls from good families for someone called Andrew. In

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Speaker 1: the papers, Maxwell also communicates with someone she calls the

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Speaker 1: Invisible Man. The same person, who signs himself with the

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Speaker 1: initial A, sends Maxwell an email saying he's in Balmoral

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Speaker 1: for Royal Family summer camp and asking if Maxwell has

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Speaker 1: found him some inappropriate friends. In the emails dated two

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Speaker 1: thousand and one, the same person tells Maxwell he has

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Speaker 1: left the RN and refers to the death of a

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Speaker 1: valet who had served him since the age of two.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor left the Royal Navy in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and one. One of the Invisible Man's email addresses is

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Speaker 1: listed in Jeffrey Epstein's phone as Duke of York. Andrew

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Speaker 1: is not specifically identified in the emails and has always

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Speaker 1: denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell's offending

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Speaker 1: against girls they allegedly trafficked for sex. He's not responded

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Speaker 1: to requests for comment made by the Australian Sister Masthead

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Speaker 1: in London The Times. Maxwell is presently in prison serving

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Speaker 1: a two decade sentence for child sex trafficking. Epstein died

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Speaker 1: in prison awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges. He

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Speaker 1: had previously served a jail term after pleading guilty to

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Speaker 1: child prostitution offenses. Epstein and Maxwell were close friends of

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Speaker 1: Andrew and his ex wife Sarah Ferguson, and the documents

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Speaker 1: also reveal a request from the FBI to interview Andrew

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Speaker 1: over his connection to another convicted sex offender, the Canadian

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Speaker 1: fashion entrepreneur Peter Nigard. You can check out those stories

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Speaker 1: live right now at the Australian dot com dot a U.

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Speaker 1: The Front's taking a little break over Christmas and will

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Speaker 1: be back on Monday, December twenty nine. And see it

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