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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. Green Senator Sarah Hanson Young has

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Speaker 1: finally addressed the controversy over her use of taxpayer funded

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Speaker 1: entitlements that gave her husband, a lobbyist, fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: in family reunion flights. It's the scandal that cost Communications

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Speaker 1: and Sports Minister Anika Wells and other senior political figures

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Speaker 1: from across the spectrum a huge amount of skin late

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Speaker 1: last year, the revelation that politicians were using hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in legitimate entitlements to fly partners and

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Speaker 1: kids around the country, including to major sporting events and

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Speaker 1: holiday destinations. Hanson Young, who is a ruthless pursuer of

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Speaker 1: wrongdoing by other politicians, says she understands the community's expectations

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Speaker 1: have changed.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I know there's been some questions raised about

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Speaker 2: this and I've had it all checked by the independent authority.

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Speaker 2: It's all been above board. But let me say, Pete,

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Speaker 2: I've made a decision that going forward, I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to use the entitlement because it's just not worth the

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Speaker 2: stress and the attention that it brings on too families,

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Speaker 2: And I don't begrudge anybody else for using it. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's up to them, that's their personal choice. But going forward,

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Speaker 2: I won't.

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Speaker 1: Be The Federal Liberals are leaping overboard as fast as

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Speaker 1: they can, with Susan Lee's front benches quitting their roles

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Speaker 1: to back the leadership challenge of rival Angus Taylor. The

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Speaker 1: Liberals will meet at nine am Friday to elect a

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Speaker 1: new leader. As Taylor puts on the charm our, country

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Speaker 1: is in trouble.

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Speaker 3: The Labor government has failed and the Liberal Party has

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Speaker 3: lost its.

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Speaker 1: Way, and the government thoroughly enjoys the libs discomfort.

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't matter who sits in that chair. The

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Speaker 3: problem is that the leader. The problem is that whoever

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Speaker 3: sits there will just.

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Speaker 2: Be the Liberal.

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Speaker 1: Please don't interject when I'm addressing the House, and the

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Speaker 1: leader of the opposition as well, just speak a give

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Speaker 1: her a past order.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of for kind of you to refer to

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Speaker 3: him as the deputy leader, mister speaker. The yeah for nowadays, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We're covering all that live and our subscribers will be

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Speaker 1: the first to know the results and what it means

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Speaker 1: plus come back to the front first thing in the

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Speaker 1: morning for one of our favorite guests, National Editor Dennis Shanahan,

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Speaker 1: who brings his vast experience and sense of humor to

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Speaker 1: the melodrama in Canberra. That's right here, Friday morning, O