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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. Donald Trump is demolishing the famous

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Speaker 1: East Wing of the White House to make way for

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Speaker 1: a grand new ballroom he says will be his gift

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Speaker 1: to the nation.

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Speaker 2: They've wanted a ballroom for one hundred and fifty years,

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Speaker 2: and I'm giving that honor to this wonderful place. I

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Speaker 2: think we should do it. This was the ballroom, and

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Speaker 2: this room holds eighty eight people, and the new one

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Speaker 2: will hold nine hundred and ninety nine people, which is

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Speaker 2: a difference. They say nine to indy nine. Because I

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Speaker 2: didn't want to crack one thousand. I didn't want people

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Speaker 2: to get concerned because that's getting big. But we're going

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Speaker 2: to have We'll have the most beautiful ballroom in the country.

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Speaker 1: It's prompting outrage from heritage advocates, but Trump says nothing

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Speaker 1: of significance will be lost.

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Speaker 2: I think there'll be nothing like it. And it's being

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Speaker 2: paid for one hundred percent by me and some friends

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Speaker 2: of mine donors to it. The government's paying absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 1: The East Wing was begun in nineteen oh two as

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Speaker 1: an addition to the presidential residence, which is an elegant

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Speaker 1: neoclassical mansion itself built in the late eighteenth century. In

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty two, during the Second World War, the present

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Speaker 1: two story east wing was built to cover an underground bunker,

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Speaker 1: which is still used in emergency situations to keep the

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Speaker 1: president safe. The east wing has been where first Ladies

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Speaker 1: have long had their offices. President Trump initially promised he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't touch the existing White House, but now he's changed

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Speaker 1: his mind. An alleged child killer who has been at

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Speaker 1: large for fifty five years has been named in New

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Speaker 1: Southwelles Parliament under parliamentary privilege. Cheryl Grimmer disappeared at the

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Speaker 1: age of three at fairy Meadow Beach near Wollongong. Little

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Speaker 1: Cheryl was at the beach on January twelve, nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: with a group of other children. Cheryl was last seen

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Speaker 1: in the public change rooms at the beach. To Two

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Speaker 1: years later, a seventeen year old man confessed to police

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Speaker 1: that he snatched Cheryl and killed her. Cheryl was never

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Speaker 1: seen again and her remains have not been found. Police

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Speaker 1: didn't believe the confession, but in twenty seventeen the man

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Speaker 1: was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty. The charge

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Speaker 1: was later dropped because the confession was ruled inadmissible. Now,

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Speaker 1: MP Jeremy Buckingham, with the support of Cheryl's family, has

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Speaker 1: used parliamentary privilege, which protects MP's from legal action to

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Speaker 1: name the alleged killer. That story's moving fast as publishers

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Speaker 1: like The Australian obtain legal advice as to whether we

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Speaker 1: can reveal the name. You can read all the detail

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Speaker 1: live at the Australian dot com dou look out. Coles

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Speaker 1: and Woolli's. Aldi is coming after the supermarket giants with

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Speaker 1: a billion dollar tailwind. The German owned grocery store hit

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Speaker 1: a record thirteen point three billion dollars in sales in

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Speaker 1: the past financial year. That's more than a billion dollars

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Speaker 1: up from twenty twenty three. Coles did nearly forty billion

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Speaker 1: in sales in the financial year, and Woolworths raked in

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Speaker 1: fifty one point four billion in sales revenue. Aldi's been

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Speaker 1: in the country for twenty four years and now has

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Speaker 1: six hundred and two stores. It's the famous center Aisle

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Speaker 1: of unexpected buyers which has made Aldier success. Everything from

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Speaker 1: pet furniture to hedge Strimmers. Its famous annual ski sale

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Speaker 1: makes Aldi the single largest retailer of ski gear in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Come back to the front first thing in the morning

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Speaker 1: for our look at Prince Andrew, the devastating allegations leveled

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Speaker 1: at him by the late Virginia Gufrey, and the increasing

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Speaker 1: clamor in the United Kingdom for the King's brother, who

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Speaker 1: denies any wrongdoing, to be stripped of his home on

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Speaker 1: the royal estate and maybe even his title of Prince