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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christian Amiot with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines, A new leader and a fresh

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Speaker 1: nightmare for the Liberal Party. Susan Lee is quitting politics

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Speaker 1: after she lost the leadership to Conservative MP Angus Taylor

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Speaker 1: on Friday morning. That means there'll be a by election

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Speaker 1: in Lee's seat of Farrer in southwestern New South Wales,

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Speaker 1: where Taylor will have to fend off candidates from One Nation.

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Speaker 1: The Nationals and Climate two hundred backed independence. One Nation

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Speaker 1: surged past the coalition in the polls in January, and

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Speaker 1: leader paul In Hansen said they'll run a strong candidate

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Speaker 1: that represents New South Wales in the race. That means

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Speaker 1: some of the right wing party's favorite issues, guns and

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Speaker 1: immigration could be front and center in the fight for Farrer.

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Speaker 1: National editor Dennis Shanahan writes for The Australian that Angus

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Speaker 1: Taylor has been handed a big mandate by his party

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Speaker 1: to set a clear policy agenda and address the fundamental

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Speaker 1: issues causing voters to jump ship. Taylor said on Friday

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Speaker 1: he's up to the task.

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Speaker 2: My message to Anthony Albanezi is this, we will fight

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Speaker 2: every bad tax, every reckless spending initiative, every policy that

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Speaker 2: drives up inflation and keeps interest rates higher for longer.

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Speaker 2: The Liberal Party is under new leadership, and with that

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Speaker 2: new leadership will come change, because our country needs change

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Speaker 2: for the better.

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Speaker 1: Taylor said he'll focus on reducing cost of living pressures

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Speaker 1: for Australians and beef up defense spending. The Australian's Political

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Speaker 1: editor Greg Brown writes Taylor will be under pressure to

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Speaker 1: elevate more women into senior roles after ousting the Liberal

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Speaker 1: Party's first female leader, Jane Hume, was elected Taylor's deputy

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Speaker 1: leader on Friday morning.

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Speaker 3: Our party and our movement has a proud history. My

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Speaker 3: role as deputy I will make it my mission to

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Speaker 3: ensure that it also has a bright future.

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Speaker 1: The Australians Editor at Large Paul Kelly says the challenges

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Speaker 1: facing the Liberal Party now are existential.

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Speaker 4: The problems of the Liberal Party are really deep seated.

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Speaker 4: They go to ideology, they go to organization, they do

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Speaker 4: go to leadership, they do go to the quality of

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Speaker 4: the parliamentary party and the talent. There's no magic wand

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Speaker 4: for the Liberal Party, there's no silver bullet that's going

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Speaker 4: to save the Liberal Party. This is going to be

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Speaker 4: one of the most difficult challenges any new Liberal leaders faced.

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Speaker 4: That a leadership change in its own right won't solve

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Speaker 4: the problem. What Angus Taylor's got to do is he's

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Speaker 4: got to try and bring the moderate faction and the

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Speaker 4: conservative faction back together. And then what he's got to

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Speaker 4: try and enunciate fundamental policy principles the entire party can endorse,

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Speaker 4: and he's got to get them out into the marketplace

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Speaker 4: and sell them.

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Speaker 1: Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday Taylor is

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Speaker 1: the best person for the job and claimed the Libs

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Speaker 1: can win the next federal election under his leadership. But

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Speaker 1: another former PM, Malcolm Turnbull, called Taylor's track record disappointing

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Speaker 1: and said he's known to others as quote, the best

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Speaker 1: qualified idiot they've ever met. Susan Lee had some choice

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Speaker 1: parting words for her successor on her way out the door.

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Speaker 5: It is important that the new leader gets clear air,

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Speaker 5: something that is not always afforded to leaders, but which

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Speaker 5: in the present moment is more important than ever.

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Speaker 1: The BBC will defend a multi billion dollar lawsuit brought

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Speaker 1: by US President Donald Trump in February next year, after

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Speaker 1: a judge in Florida refused the UK broadcaster's request to

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Speaker 1: delay the proceedings. Trump's complaint relates to the way the

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Speaker 1: BBC's Panorama program edited a speech he gave in early

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. He claims that version gave the impression

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Speaker 1: he encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol Building in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. On January sixth of that year, skier Cooper

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Speaker 1: Woods claimed Australia's first gold medal in the men's moguls

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Speaker 1: event at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Overnight gold medalist span Olympic Champion representing Australia.

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Speaker 1: It was the twenty five year old's first time in

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Speaker 1: the event's super final and Australia's seventh ever Winter Olympics

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Speaker 1: the Australian dot Com dot a U and come back

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Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for the

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Speaker 1: question that's got us all hot and bothered. Why do

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