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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 bombshell memoir from the late

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Speaker 1: Virginia Giuffrey, who's described Prince Andrew as considering himself to

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Speaker 1: have had a birthright to have sex with her when

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Speaker 1: she was a teenager. Giffrey claimed to have been introduced

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Speaker 1: to the Duke of York at Donald Trump's Mara Lago

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Speaker 1: resort by Gilaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who was later

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Speaker 1: convicted of sex trafficking and died in prison. Trump and Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: who's also now in prison, have always denied any wrongdoing

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Speaker 1: in association with Epstein. Prince Andrew has also vociferously denied

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Speaker 1: ever meeting Giffrey, who says she had sex with him

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Speaker 1: three times, commencing when she was seventeen years old. Giffrey

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Speaker 1: took civil action against Prince Andrew, which was settled without

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Speaker 1: any admission of wrongdoing. Earlier this year, Giffrey took her

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Speaker 1: own life in Western Australia, where she lived with her family.

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Speaker 1: She was forty one. A win for pro Palestine activists

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Speaker 1: in court with a new South Wales Supreme Court judge

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Speaker 1: ruling Chris Min's government overstepped in its law banning protests

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Speaker 1: outside places of worship. Justice Anna Mitchellmore said the law

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Speaker 1: impermissibly burdens the implied constitutional freedom of communication on government

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Speaker 1: or political matters and is invalid. The Premier says he's disappointed,

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Speaker 1: but says the new laws still effectively forbid harassing or

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Speaker 1: intimidating people attending synagogues, mosques or churches. Unemployments up four

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Speaker 1: point five percent, its highest level in almost four years.

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Speaker 1: That's increased speculation the Reserve Bank will cut the cash

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Speaker 1: rate again to ease pressure on the economy. September jobs

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Speaker 1: figures show the number of people looking for work rose

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Speaker 1: by almost thirty four thousand. That's at the same time

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Speaker 1: as nearly fifteen thousand people gained work. Check out those

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Speaker 1: stories live right now at the Australian dot Com dot

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Speaker 1: a U and come back to the First Thing in

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Speaker 1: the morning for our close look at the latest twist

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Speaker 1: in the Brittany Higgins matter. Now, former Coalition Cabinet Minister

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Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds is turning her sights on Labour's most powerful women,

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Speaker 1: Katie Gallagher and Penny Wong