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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, May seventeen. Peter Dutton is proposing a dramatic

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Speaker 1: federal intervention into the criminal justice system to make Australian safer,

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Speaker 1: including tougher knife laws, a crackdown on bail and new

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Speaker 1: Commonwealth laws prohibiting domestic violence offenders using digital technology to

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Speaker 1: stalk or control their victims. Coming up later in the episode,

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Speaker 1: We've got a Friday treat for you, a dive into

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Speaker 1: the glamour and the silliness of Australian Fashion Week, which

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Speaker 1: has just wrapped. Our expert from Vogue Australia tells us

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Speaker 1: why we might all be wearing bonnets before too long,

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Speaker 1: and why even in today's tough economic climate, designers think

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Speaker 1: it's worthwhile spending one hundred thousand dollars or more to

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Speaker 1: stage a runway shop. Stay with us.

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Speaker 2: I give a call to the Honorable the Leader of

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Speaker 2: the Opposition.

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Speaker 1: If the Federal budget is a bit like school speech night,

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Speaker 1: with everyone wearing their best suits and making very important speeches.

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Speaker 1: The Thursday after budget is muck up Day, when the

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Speaker 1: kids get to go a bit wild. Jim Chalmers delivered

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Speaker 1: a big, ambitious budget on Tuesday designed to ease the

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Speaker 1: cost of living, crush inflation and get labor re elected.

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Speaker 1: And on Thursday night muck up Day, Peter Dutton got

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Speaker 1: to deliver his budget in reply. When you're in opposition,

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Speaker 1: you don't actually have to make all the numbers add

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Speaker 1: up like the government does. You can use the platform

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Speaker 1: to go beyond budget policy and go big on vision.

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Speaker 1: Last year Peter Dutton used his budget in reply to

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Speaker 1: make the case for nuclear power. This year, Dutton's gone

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Speaker 1: for another big theme, the safety of women and everyone

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Speaker 1: in our society.

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Speaker 2: The Coalition government will provide much needed leadership in tackling

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Speaker 2: knife crime. We will work with states and territories to

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Speaker 2: develop uniform knife laws across all jurisdictions. Laws which will

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Speaker 2: give police the powers to stop and search using detective

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Speaker 2: ones like Queensland's Jack's Law, and laws which will limit

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Speaker 2: and restrict the sale and possession of knives to minors

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Speaker 2: and dangerous individuals.

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Speaker 1: Dutton is calling on his law and order credentials.

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Speaker 2: As a former police officer. The horrific scenes of beaten

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Speaker 2: women and distraught children I encountered stay with me to

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Speaker 2: this day, as do the memories of taking women who

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Speaker 2: are shaking with fear to shelters and safe homes and

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Speaker 2: helping them relocate with their children to safety.

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Speaker 1: Dutton's promising a radical overhaul of the way crime and justice,

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Speaker 1: which are usually left to the states and territories, will

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Speaker 1: be handled. He's promising to tighten bail laws, but hasn't

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Speaker 1: said how he'll get the labor states to fall into line.

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Speaker 2: Recently, Molly Tyshurst, a twenty eight year old mother from

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Speaker 2: New South Wales, was murdered because her violent expartner was

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Speaker 2: on bailed. A coalition government will make it in fence

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Speaker 2: to use mobile phones and computer networks to cause an

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Speaker 2: intimate partner or family member fear for their personal safety,

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Speaker 2: to track them using spywaar, or to engage in coercive behaviors.

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Speaker 2: We will toughen the bail laws that apply to these

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Speaker 2: Newcommonwealth offenses.

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Speaker 1: The Budget in reply is also a platform to seledge

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Speaker 1: the government.

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Speaker 2: This labor government has made life so much tougher for Australians.

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Speaker 2: This labor government has set our country on a very

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Speaker 2: dangerous course. It started with Prime Minister's Voice referendum. Not

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Speaker 2: only did it waste four hundred and fifty million dollars

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Speaker 2: which could have helped families with the cost of living

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Speaker 2: pressures that you're now facing. The referendum also divided our nation. You,

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Speaker 2: your family, your children, and our country can't afford another

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Speaker 2: three years of this government. I know how to make

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Speaker 2: decisions to get our country back on track.

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Speaker 1: It's been a big week for politics and crime. So

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Speaker 1: join us as we put one stiletto in front of

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Speaker 1: the other and strut right into fashion week. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: we'll be back after this break. Hello, thanks the jaws.

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Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see what the girls are wearing.

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Speaker 4: What are you wearing? What do you wear?

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Speaker 1: What's a fashion trend that you can't get enough of?

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Speaker 1: My sunglasses adult Chaninkavanna from designer i Ouf a one.

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Speaker 2: This is for the Eric Vaughn Show.

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Speaker 1: We're doing white Sands today.

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Speaker 3: Follow on my show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's gonna be naked pretty much, except they

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Speaker 4: won't let me wear bikini because I'm only sea.

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Speaker 1: Francisca Wallace's Bogustralia's digital director, Francisca, you've been down at

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Speaker 1: fashion Week this week. What have you seen on the runway?

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Speaker 4: First, there's lots going on, lots of emerging designers, which

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Speaker 3: Amy Lawrence was a standout for me.

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Speaker 4: She's an incredible Melbourne based designer who was doing the

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Speaker 4: most beautiful kind of structural gowns, these gorgeous little sort

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Speaker 4: and layering and texture. I think both really exciting names for.

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Speaker 4: Also, lots going on in the street because it is

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Speaker 4: what goes on outside the shows. So yeah, lots of red,

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Speaker 1: I've seen a story on Bogustralia about tiny hats, in

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Speaker 1: particular leather berets. You mentioned bonnets. Are Australians willing to

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Speaker 4: I think we might be. I think the tide may

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Speaker 4: be shifting on the hat. I'm for one, I'm very

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Speaker 4: excited about that because I love a cap. I think

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Speaker 4: the cap is the gateway hat into the rest of

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Speaker 1: So that's a relief I was worrying about the bonnet.

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Speaker 4: And I do think that's a lot in part to TikTok,

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Speaker 4: But there's also this generation that are growing up with

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Speaker 4: the idea that you know, you really want to express

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Speaker 1: The past decade's biggest trend has been active were taking

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Speaker 1: due to Pip Edwards, the designer behind at leisure label

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Speaker 1: pe Nation. It's full of big, bold prints and Pip's

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Speaker 1: own initials emblazed on everything. She's used this fashion week

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you don't really need any iodn't.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm Pep Edwards, the co founder and creative director

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Speaker 3: What are you wearing? Are you tough? I am wearing

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Speaker 3: pe Nation Naturally.

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Speaker 1: Edwards is smart enough to use fashion week not as

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Speaker 4: Peop is definitely a marketing genius and there was a

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Speaker 4: lot of change with this collection. I think what we're

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Speaker 3: In Australa. We've been wearing active wears clothing for a

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Speaker 4: But what's different about this is it felt like there

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Speaker 4: lot less logos, the colors were a lot more muted.

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Speaker 4: Who you kind of want these basics to work harder

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Speaker 4: but you can also wear it and actually look really

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Speaker 4: don't think that's going anywhere. And Australians absolutely love a

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Speaker 1: This year marks the twenty eighth anniversary of Fashion Week.

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Speaker 1: When it started, the buyers for department stores of London

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Speaker 1: magazine editors. Now everything has changed. The power has shifted

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Speaker 1: to online retailers like Netaporte and to influencers. The cost

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Speaker 4: I've heard of shows that have nudged into the six figures,

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Speaker 4: if you don't make them yourself. And then there's of

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Speaker 4: course all the pr and the marketing that goes into it,

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Speaker 3: So it's very expensive.

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Speaker 4: emerging designers, though I think the industry does have to

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Speaker 1: Australia's fashion industry is facing the same manufacturing and cost

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Speaker 1: of production challenges that are making onshore productions so hard

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Speaker 4: Obviously, manufacturing locally is extremely expensive. We're all looking for

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Speaker 3: How do we mitigate that? And Vogue was a part

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Speaker 4: Last week actually at Kuberley House with Jody Hayden, and

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Speaker 4: that was all about the fashion and the tech innovation

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Speaker 4: just the shipping costs and the staff costs and all

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Speaker 4: the sort of logistics, and you do have to realistically

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Speaker 4: there's all these all this travel, all these prohibitive costs

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Speaker 4: the clothes that are made here is so expensive, which

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Speaker 4: we personally think at Vogue that it's a worstwhile investment,

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Speaker 4: but that's not always the case, and not every customer,

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Speaker 4: especially with the cost of living crisis, is sort of

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Speaker 1: Francesca Wallace is Vogue's digital director. Check out their coverage

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Speaker 1: of fashion Week at Vogue dot com dot a You

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