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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Grace Rufrain from Mumamea's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 1: The Quickie with Your Headlines for Monday November eighteen. Veteran

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Speaker 1: broadcaster Alan Jones, once one of Australia's most powerful media figures,

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Speaker 1: has been taken into a police station in the back

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Speaker 1: of an unmarked car to answer indecent assault allegations. Police

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Speaker 1: on Monday said the arrest followed a near nine month

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Speaker 1: investigation into allegations aired in nine newspapers. The talkback host

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Speaker 1: repeatedly used positions of power to abuse young men. The

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Speaker 1: claims include putting his hands down the pants of students

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Speaker 1: and indecently assaulting a number of young men throughout his

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Speaker 1: influential broadcasting career. Authorities anticipated other alleged victims could come

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Speaker 1: forward following Jones's arrest. New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen

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Speaker 1: Webb said in a statement that the arrest was the

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Speaker 1: result of a very long, thorough and protracted investigation and

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Speaker 1: that there's no such thing as a matter that's too

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Speaker 1: old to be investigated. She urged victims that there is

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Speaker 1: no better time to come forward than now, and that

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Speaker 1: they will be listened to. In December twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: Jones's lawyer Mark O'Brien denied the allegations on his client's behalf,

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Speaker 1: saying our client denies ever having indecently assaulted the persons

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Speaker 1: referred to, and the suggestion that he has is scandalous,

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Speaker 1: grossly offensive and seriously defamatory. Alan Jones began broadcasting in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five after a failed political career, and became

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Speaker 1: a feared interviewer capable of grilling leaders while dominating the

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Speaker 1: airwaves with his outspoken conservative views. He worked with Sydney

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Speaker 1: radio station two UE before joining rival to GB where

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Speaker 1: he was a longtime ratings juggernaut. Jones most recently broadcast

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Speaker 1: via digital platform EIGHTHTV, but he has not been on

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Speaker 1: air since November twenty twenty three, shortly before the indecent

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Speaker 1: assault allegations were published. The Senate has reprimanded Independent Senator

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Speaker 1: Lydia Thorpe over her protest at a parliamentary ceremony for

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Speaker 1: King Charles during the monarch's Australian tour. Government leader Penny

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Speaker 1: Wong said on Monday, the senator's outburst sought to incite

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Speaker 1: rage and grievance and it's something we do not need

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Speaker 1: here in Australia. Senator Thorpe challenged the King and Queen

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Speaker 1: Camille during a welcome reception at Parliament House in October.

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Speaker 1: The Indigenous senator claimed the monarch had committed genocide and

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Speaker 1: give back what the British stole, the bones, skulls and

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Speaker 1: babies of Indigenous people. Senator Wong said the vote forty

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Speaker 1: six to twelve signaled that Australian politicians should uphold standards

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Speaker 1: of respect during visits by dignitaries. Senator Thought responded by saying,

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Speaker 1: shame on you all, and if the King comes back in,

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Speaker 1: I'll do it again. Senior Constable Christian White, who discharged

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Speaker 1: his taser at ninety five year old Clan Noland, has

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Speaker 1: told a jury that it was never meant to lead

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Speaker 1: to her death, but was done to prevent others from

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Speaker 1: being stabbed. The incident, which occurred in an aged care

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Speaker 1: home in May twenty twenty three, enters its second week

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Speaker 1: of trial, with the accused stating he only intended to

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Speaker 1: incapacitate and disarm the aged care resident. The Senior Constable

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Speaker 1: pointed the stun gun at Miss Noland as she shuffled

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Speaker 1: forwards out of a treatment room, ignoring four of his

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Speaker 1: verbal warnings and the loud electrical crackles of the weapon's

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Speaker 1: warning arc the great grandmother, who had symptoms up to me.

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Speaker 1: The bencha fell backwards, hitting her head and died a

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Speaker 1: week later in hospital. White on Monday stated he is

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Speaker 1: upset and devastated. Also argued he tried to give the

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Speaker 1: ninety five year old every opportunity to drop the knife.

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Speaker 1: He believes the tasering was justified as she had been

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Speaker 1: holding the knife for several hours and the situation was

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Speaker 1: not going to be resolved without force. White is due

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Speaker 1: to undergo a grilling by Crown Prosecutor Brett Hatfield as

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Speaker 1: the trial continues. The first weekend of schoolies on the

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Speaker 1: Gold Coast saw the majority of partying teenagers doing the

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Speaker 1: right thing, with only four arrests. Queensland Police Chief Superintendent

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Speaker 1: Craig Hanlon said four schoolies and eight non school leavers

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Speaker 1: were arrested on the weekend for seventeen minor offenses. These

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Speaker 1: include drug possession and public nuisance incidents like urinating in

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Speaker 1: public and drunken disorderly behavior. Telling reporters on Monday, in

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Speaker 1: the scheme of things, it's not that serious. Police are

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Speaker 1: also searching for knives under Jack's Law, named after a

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Speaker 1: teen who was fatally stabbed on the Gold Coast. During

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Speaker 1: the celebrations. With two hundred and ninety five hours adults

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy two kids checked for weapons, it

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Speaker 1: was reported only two knives, a set of knuckle dusters,

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Speaker 1: and a fold back knife was seized from people who

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Speaker 1: weren't school less. The two week event will see more

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Speaker 1: than twenty thy teens to send on the popular tourist

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Speaker 1: destination to celebrate the end of thirteen years of school.

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Speaker 1: That's your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie,

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Speaker 1: Claire Murphy is joined by Amelia Lester to unpack the

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