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Speaker 1: the news from the Australian. From the Australian, Here's what's

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Speaker 1: on the Front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Wednesday, September eleventh.

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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton will launch an attack on Prime Minister Anthony

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Speaker 1: Albanezi today, saying mining and resources will be obliterated if

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Speaker 1: the Greens and Teal candidates help Labor win the next election.

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Speaker 1: Queensland's opposition leader, David Chris a Fully has vound to

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Speaker 1: appoint the whistleblower who exposed Australia's biggest ever forensics disaster

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Speaker 1: to overhaul the state's troubled state run DNA lab if

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Speaker 1: his party wins government next month. The bungle was exposed

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Speaker 1: in The Australians podcast Share Story and you can read

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Speaker 1: all about Chris Foley's ambitions for doctor Kirsty Wright now

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Speaker 1: at The Australian dot com dot au. A slick video

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Speaker 1: featuring unprecedented royal scenes of warmth and family love. It's

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Speaker 1: how Catherine, Princess of Wales announced the end of her

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Speaker 1: chemotherapy treatment and declared herself firmly in charge. That's today's story, Kate.

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Speaker 1: People a obviously incredibly curious about you.

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Speaker 2: So let's start with the obvious.

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Speaker 1: It's late twenty ten and a nervous twenty eight year

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Speaker 1: old Kate Middleton is sitting on a sofar, a giant

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Speaker 1: sapphire engagement ring glinting in the light.

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Speaker 2: That's a true romantic and yes, of course, yes, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Weeks earlier, Kate had becoming gay to one of the

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Speaker 1: world's most eligible bachelors, Prince William.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking about marriage for a while, so it

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Speaker 2: wasn't a massively big surprise, but I took her up

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Speaker 1: Before this ITV interview, she was a girl about London,

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Speaker 3: She's been dubbed weedy Katie, what is the girl waiting for?

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Speaker 1: After it, and probably for the rest of her life,

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Speaker 1: she became the most famous woman in the world and

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Speaker 1: the embodiment of Britain's constitutional monarchy. The dress she wore

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Speaker 1: the globe. The Kate effect was on, and then Catherine retreated,

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Speaker 1: She was enigmatic, a beautiful figurehead who managed to be

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Speaker 1: immensely famous while revealing precisely nothing. In the meantime, the

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Speaker 1: The Duchess of Sussex flamed from joy and gratitude.

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Speaker 4: Yes, his family has been so welcoming, and.

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Speaker 1: A few of them I have to entitlement and despair.

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Speaker 1: What and now Meghan is making jam that nobody can buy,

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Speaker 5: On the head, there's Saint Catherine, I call her. She

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magney is The Australian's europe correspondent.

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Speaker 5: We've seen the Royals in a way we've never seen

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Speaker 5: Usually they always kind of are very carefully not holding

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Speaker 1: Catherine has executed a masterful cementing of her authority from

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Speaker 2: We hope that you'll understand that as a family, we

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Catherine, now Princess of Wales, released a new video.

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Speaker 2: As a summer comes to an end. I cannot tell

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Speaker 1: It's a sleek production. There's beautiful slow motion shots of

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Speaker 5: It was only just earlier this year, the beginning of

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Speaker 1: The photo was released in an attempt to quell misinformation

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Speaker 1: She retreated from public life with no explanation. Where is Keen?

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Speaker 5: Catherine in a deal done between the Palace and all

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Speaker 5: well ever since that they've taken back control they've released

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Speaker 1: There's still a boundary, though there isn't there, Jack. We

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Speaker 5: No, she wants to keep that private, and she hasn't

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Speaker 1: Coming out. Why Catherine's candid cancer journey is just what

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Speaker 1: we'll be back after this break.

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Speaker 3: I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Let's put it simply,

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Speaker 1: That's supermodel Elle McPherson. She's speaking with journalist Tracy Grimshaw

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Speaker 1: In the memoir, McPherson revealed she's in remission from breast cancer.

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Speaker 3: What were you told needed to happen? Mastect to me? Chemotherapy,

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Speaker 1: Macpherson said she refused those conventional therapies recommended by doctors

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Speaker 1: El McPherson's claim she effectively healed her own cancer was

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Speaker 1: On cologist said McPherson had, in fact had a lumpectomy,

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Speaker 5: And she took a very conventional path, and certainly El

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Speaker 2: To all those who are continuing their own cancer journey.

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Speaker 2: I remain with you, side by side, hand in hand.

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Speaker 2: Out of darkness can come late, so let that light shine. Right.

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Speaker 1: Do you think in any way Harry and Meghan have

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Speaker 5: I think that some of that is true. I used

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Speaker 5: And I remember one year we saw Katherine and Meghan,

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magnae is the Australians europe correspondent. All eyes will

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Speaker 1: be on the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

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