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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 new twist in the story

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Speaker 1: of Bruce Lahmon, the former political staffer who's now facing

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Speaker 1: a charge of vehicle theft in the Tasmanian courts. Lehman

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Speaker 1: was listed to appear in the Magistrates Court at Hobart

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Speaker 1: on Thursday morning in relation to the alleged theft in

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Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four of a toyotoprado belonging to a

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Speaker 1: woman named Gail Denise Oates. Lemon has denied the offense

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Speaker 1: and his lawyer has indicated it will be defended. On Thursday,

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Speaker 1: court officers called Lemon's name that he didn't appear. Magistrate

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Speaker 1: Robert Webster said Lemon's lawyer, Zalie Burrows told the court

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Speaker 1: by email she'd apparently misunderstood whether the proceeding was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be a mention, a brief procedural affair or a

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Speaker 1: hearing where both she and Lhman would have appeared. The

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Speaker 1: magistrate said Burrows had indicated Lamon was not available today

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Speaker 1: due to an urgent medical issue. Slash tests a police prosecuted.

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Speaker 1: He told the court he was ready to proceed with

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Speaker 1: the matter, but the prosecutor also told the court that

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Speaker 1: given Lehman's non appearance, he sought little option but to

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Speaker 1: apply for a warrant to be issued for his arrest.

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Speaker 1: Magistrate Webster said the matter would remain in his list

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Speaker 1: for now. Smart Watchers, smart spectacles and all other wearable

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Speaker 1: and digital recording devices are to be banned from New

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Speaker 1: South Wales daycare centers under new laws which have passed

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Speaker 1: the state's parliament. The new rules are a response to

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Speaker 1: allegations of serial abuse in daycare centers by care as

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Speaker 1: using mobile phones to record their crimes. New South Wales

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Speaker 1: will also force all centers to display their history of

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Speaker 1: compliance in a public area so parents know if there've

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Speaker 1: been any regulatory actions. Educators will still be able to

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Speaker 1: take photos of kids to share with parents, a standard

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Speaker 1: practice for informing families of the day's activities, but it'll

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Speaker 1: have to happen on center owned devices once permission has

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Speaker 1: been obtained from parents. The penalties in the new law

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Speaker 1: include more than three three thousand, four hundred dollars for

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Speaker 1: individuals and up to fifty six thousand dollars for operators.

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

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