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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 Tuesday, November nineteen. Shishin Being is facing his biggest

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Speaker 1: trade challenge in more than a decade, and he's aiming

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Speaker 1: to counter Donald Trump's taraf by getting Australia on side.

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Speaker 1: In his third bilateral meeting with Anthony Alberonizi at the

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Speaker 1: G twenty somewhat on Tuesday, the Chinese president will seek

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Speaker 1: support for open trade. That story's live right now at

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Speaker 1: the Australian dot com. Dou One of the most influential

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Speaker 1: figures in the history of Australian media, Alan Jones, will

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Speaker 1: face court on December eighteen, charged with twenty four offenses

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Speaker 1: including indecent assault and sexual touching. His lawyer says he'll

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Speaker 1: be defending the chargers today. The remarkable power of the

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Speaker 1: loved and loathed Alan Jones and what happens to the

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Speaker 1: eighty three year old Now, long before there was Kyle

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Speaker 1: and Jackie.

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Speaker 2: Oh guys, guys, this morning I'm masturbated right and I'm

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Speaker 2: so lazy.

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Speaker 1: This morning there was Alan Jones.

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Speaker 3: She's a clown, just Cinderada in a complete clown. I

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Speaker 3: just wonder whether Scott Morrison's going to be fully brief

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Speaker 3: to shove a sock down the throat. I mean, she

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Speaker 3: is a joke, this woman, and an absolute and utter lightweight.

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Speaker 4: What about this brain dead Sarah Hansoon Young from the Greens.

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Speaker 4: Your dope, clever or you died in the world dope?

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Speaker 1: The all powerful king of Sydney Breakfast Radio, who turned

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Speaker 1: his daily AM slot into a platform to terrify politicians,

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Speaker 1: hector hapless bureaucrats and demand results for his army of

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Speaker 1: devoted listeners. Here he is in twenty fourteen, demanding then

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Speaker 1: Minister Malcolm Turnbull show loyalty to Prime Tony Abbott.

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Speaker 5: Can I begin by asking you if you could say

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Speaker 5: after me this As a senior member of the Abbot government,

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Speaker 5: I want to say here, I am totally supportive of

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Speaker 5: the Abbot Hockey strategy for budget repair Allan.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to take dictation from you. I am

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Speaker 2: a cabinet minister. I support unreservedly and wholeheartedly every element

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Speaker 2: in the budget, every single one.

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Speaker 1: Jones's power came from his audience, Sydney Siders who loved

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Speaker 1: hearing him rip in, but were also charmed by his

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Speaker 1: moments of quirky, warmth enthusing about passions like opera.

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Speaker 3: The music critic, writing for The New York That described

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Speaker 3: Terrasini's performance as quote smoldering, explosive, shrieking, whispering, singing.

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Speaker 1: Jones had risen international prominence via rugby union. He was

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Speaker 1: a teacher, then a coach at elite boys schools who

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Speaker 1: rose to steer the Wallabies back in their glory days.

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Speaker 1: Jones and made numerous unsuccessful attempts to stand for politics

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Speaker 1: with the Liberal and Country parties, but in the end,

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Speaker 1: Jones proved he didn't need a seat in Parliament to

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Speaker 1: have a say in running the country. Politicians jumped to

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Speaker 1: his command and sponsors flocked to the show. It was

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Speaker 1: those commercial relationships that caused Jones's first brush with national controversy,

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Speaker 1: when an inquiry by the Australian Broadcasting Authority found he

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Speaker 1: had failed to properly disclose commercial relationships with the brands

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Speaker 1: he was sprooking on air. And then in twenty twelve

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Speaker 1: at a Young Liberal function, the Sunday Telegraph recorded Jones

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Speaker 1: saying this when he thought no journalists were present.

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Speaker 2: The cause of the Labor Party, Julia Alive everybody.

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Speaker 1: Shame if you didn't catch that, Joones said the then

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, Julia Gillard's recently deceased father had died of

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Speaker 1: shame because of what Joanes said were his daughter's lies.

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Speaker 1: It prompted a wave of condemnation and a rare expression

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Speaker 1: of regret.

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Speaker 6: Jones's apology press conference when for forty five minutes, but

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Speaker 6: the word sorry didn't feature.

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Speaker 5: I owe her an apology, and I hope I'll be

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Speaker 5: able to make that to her, not to.

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Speaker 3: Her through you.

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Speaker 4: You just have to concede and man up and say

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Speaker 4: you got it wrong.

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Speaker 1: I was the deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph at

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Speaker 1: the time we published that story, and I've got to

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Speaker 1: tell you it was hair raising for editor Neil Breen

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Speaker 1: and me to publish such a story about a figure

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Speaker 1: so powerful and so ruthless. But that moment was a

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Speaker 1: small insight into how Jones regarded women. He is lecturing Gillard,

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, for being late to his show.

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Speaker 7: Alan, I believe I am a very courteous person. I'm

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Speaker 7: also very busy. If I can finish my sentence, Alan, also,

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Speaker 7: I'm also a very busy Rawson and Alan, if I

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Speaker 7: can finish my sentence uninterrupted. I've had media commitments this morning, late.

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Speaker 3: This morning at ten past seven. Would your staff agreed

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Speaker 7: Well, Allan, I am happy to apologize to you for

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Speaker 7: being late. I am now here. If you have a

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Speaker 7: question in the nation's interest, then please feel free to

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Speaker 7: put it.

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Speaker 1: And suggesting what he'd really like to do with Gillard

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Speaker 4: The woman's offer tree and quite frankly, they should show

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Speaker 4: her and Bob Brown in a chaff bag and take

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Speaker 4: them a star out to see as they can and

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Speaker 4: tell him to swim home.

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Speaker 1: At the top of this episode, you heard Jones talking

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Speaker 1: about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda R.

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Speaker 5: Dern.

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Speaker 1: Here's another moment.

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Speaker 3: New Zealand Prime Minister Jasinda Dern is challenging Scott Morrison

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Speaker 3: overclimate change. Now, I hope Scott Morrison gets tough here

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Speaker 3: with a few backhanders. Hasn't got a clue this woman.

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Speaker 8: There's no question that there has been a lot of

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Speaker 8: misogyny in the kinds of things that Jones has said

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Speaker 8: over the years.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Rice is The Australian's New South Wales editor and.

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Speaker 8: I think when he made that comment about dern It

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Speaker 8: coalesced there were a lot of things happening at the

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Speaker 8: time as well. It wasn't just that this was a

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Speaker 8: reminder of those things that he'd said, the quite disgraceful

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Speaker 8: thing sometimes about women. It was also right at the

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Speaker 8: point where listeners were already starting to abandon the show,

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Speaker 8: but more importantly, advertisers were starting to abandon the show,

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Speaker 8: and not just abandon the show, abandoned two GB as

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Speaker 8: a station, as a radio station. So you had all

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Speaker 8: this background where his influence is fading because he's a

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Speaker 8: dinosaur and he's not reading the room. Other broadcasters are

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Speaker 8: moving with the times. Jones just doesn't seem to be

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Speaker 8: able to do that. He's really stuck on certain lines.

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Speaker 8: And maybe you could get away with that and your

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Speaker 8: audience would just dwindle a bit, but you'd hang around.

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Speaker 8: But when you're saying stuff like chuff bag and chuck

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Speaker 8: them in the sea, advertisers will abandon you, and that's

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Speaker 8: what they were doing.

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Speaker 1: Jones retired from radio in twenty twenty and tried television

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Speaker 1: with Sky News, but the audience didn't follow him, and

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Speaker 1: Jones left in twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty three nine,

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Speaker 1: newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald published a series of allegations

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Speaker 1: by men that Jones had indecently assaulted them, including claims

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Speaker 1: he'd put his hands down two young men's pants, passionately

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Speaker 1: kissed a then schoolboy without his consent, and sexually touched

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Speaker 1: On Monday morning, police raided that Circular Key apartment and

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Speaker 9: Alan Jones, once one of the most influential media identities

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Speaker 9: in Australia, is now under arrest over allegations he and

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Speaker 9: decently assaulted multiple young men.

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Speaker 1: Police executed a warrant at the eighty three year old's

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Speaker 1: luxury Sydney apartment at Circular Key this morning. He has

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Speaker 1: been charged with twenty four offenses spanning two decades, including

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Speaker 1: eleven charges of aggravated in decent assault, nine charges relating

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Speaker 1: to assault with active indecency, two charges of sexual touching

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Speaker 1: and two charges of common assault. The police will allege

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Speaker 1: Jones's youngest victim was seventeen years old when me alleged

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Speaker 1: offense occurred. His Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald from New South

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Speaker 1: Wales Police, giving a media conference on Monday.

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Speaker 6: I wish to commend the investigators of Strikeforce Bonavan for

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Speaker 6: their tenacity and their hard work and bringing this matter

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Speaker 6: before the courts. Historical matters such as this are incredibly

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Speaker 6: hard to investigate and bring before the courts. I wish

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Speaker 6: to commend the victims and their bravery in coming forward.

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Speaker 6: They fully are aware, as are the investigators, that the

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Speaker 6: hard work is just beginning, and they have given their

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Speaker 1: Jones has not yet been required to enter a plea,

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Speaker 1: but he's consistently denied any wrongdoing. On Monday, his lawyer

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Speaker 1: Chris Murphy said the charges would be defended and attacked

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Speaker 1: Michael Fitzgerald for describing the witnesses as victims, saying that

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Speaker 1: was a matter for the courts coming up. After the

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Speaker 1: Break Southwales editor Stephen Rice on what we can expect

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Speaker 1: from the King versus Alan Jones when this matter goes

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Speaker 1: to trial. Stephen Rice spoke to the Front's Christen amyot Rice.

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Speaker 1: He says Jones is.

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Speaker 8: Probably the best broadcast of the country he's ever seen.

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Speaker 8: I love him or hate him. He is just a

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Speaker 8: force of nature and yes he's bombastic, Hill Harangue, Prime

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Speaker 8: minister's businessman, you name it. Alan Jones will be in there,

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Speaker 8: taking absolutely no prisoners. A lot of our younger listeners

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Speaker 8: may have difficulty just grasping the kind of power that

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Speaker 8: he wielded, especially today in the age of social media

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Speaker 8: in a very fragmented media. But in the eighty and

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Speaker 8: had that immediacy that social media does now. Before Alan

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Speaker 8: that early morning radio shift, and Jones just turned that

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Speaker 10: Alan Jones has of course denied any wrongdoing and we

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Speaker 10: out in court. But if and when this does come

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Speaker 10: to trial, what do you think we can expect to see?

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Speaker 8: From everything we know, Jones will plead not guilty. He's

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Speaker 8: said very clearly on a number of occasions since The

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Speaker 8: Sydney Morning Herald came out with its allegations that he

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Speaker 10: You mentioned just now that Alan Jones is likely to

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Speaker 10: plead not guilty. He's vehemently denied these allegations in the past.

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Speaker 10: Who do you think we can expect to see representing

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Speaker 10: him if and when this does go to trial.

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Speaker 8: Look, I expect we'll see a phalanx of Australia's best

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Speaker 8: cases lining up to represent Jones. Behind the scenes, He's

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Speaker 8: still got plenty of friends, plenty of supporters. Alan Jones

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Speaker 8: famously has a what he calls a pick and stick club.

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Speaker 8: They are the rusted on friends and supporters who he

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Speaker 8: will never abandon and who he thinks and hopes will

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Speaker 8: never abandon him. He'll have plenty of friends working to

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Speaker 8: ensure that he gets a fair trial.

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Speaker 1: Alan Jones has been granted conditional bail to appear before

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Speaker 1: the Downing Center Local Court on Decemi about eighteen. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Rice is The Australian's Sydney bureau chief. We've got the

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Speaker 1: full inside story of how this arrest transpired and what

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Speaker 1: precipitated the drama live right now at the Australian dot

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