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Speaker 1: Murray Old's Ossie correspondents with US aimas afternoon Heather, So,

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Speaker 1: Julian Assange's back, where is he?

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Speaker 2: Look? He's lying low flew in last night.

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Speaker 3: Wife and his dad were their very big day of

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Speaker 3: course for the family, as we know, success as many fathers.

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Speaker 3: So many politicians of both sides were lining up to

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Speaker 3: put themselves collectively on the back. Certainly a lot of

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Speaker 3: work behind the scenes by Kevin Rudd, who these days,

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Speaker 3: of course, the former Labour Prime Minister is the Australian

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Speaker 3: Ambassador to Washington. So there's joy that an Australian cent

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Speaker 3: is in after a twelve year ordeal, five of those years,

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Speaker 3: as we know, in a maximum security jail in London.

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Speaker 2: He's out and he's home.

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Speaker 3: Accused of espionage threatening national security, is used of treason

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Speaker 3: or because he published those leak documents that basically embarrassed

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Speaker 3: the US government as a journalist, though he should have

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Speaker 3: been protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution

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Speaker 3: governing freedom of speech. And there's a number of people

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Speaker 3: over here today he was saying that what happened that

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Speaker 3: the fact that he was eventually charged with a relatively

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Speaker 3: minor offense flew to an American Pacific territory and pleaded

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Speaker 3: guilty to that minor charge, convicted, sentenced to time already served.

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Speaker 3: Has that now created a legal precedent? And other words,

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Speaker 3: can journalists in future be penned for exactly the same thing,

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Speaker 3: notwithstanding the fact there should be that protection of freedom

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Speaker 3: of expression. So let's just wait and see the way

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Speaker 3: that you know, which way the mop flops and all

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Speaker 3: of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting stuff. Listen, that inflation number must be freaking

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Speaker 1: you guys out. I mean, are you staring down the

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Speaker 1: barrel now of multiple rises?

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Speaker 2: Potentially that's what I'm saying. Four percent in the year

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Speaker 2: to May.

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Speaker 3: That's a six month high and up from three point

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Speaker 3: six percent the previous month.

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Speaker 2: And that's high. I haven't expect, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: Housing, food, transport, alcohol, all the essential food groups all

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Speaker 3: went up. The big surprise for economists who are now saying,

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Speaker 3: as you correctly point out, the Reserve Bank will have

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Speaker 3: to increase the official cash rate before Christmas, maybe as

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Speaker 3: early as the first week of August when the boarders

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Speaker 3: meet next, and that's only days after the next inflation

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Speaker 3: dartup for the June.

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Speaker 2: Quarter comes out. There will be pressure on the raise

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Speaker 2: the official cash rate.

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Speaker 3: The Reserve Bank wants inflation back down between two and

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Speaker 3: three percent.

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Speaker 2: Four percent out of the question, and I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to let that stay there.

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Speaker 3: And they tried to slow down the economy, So maybe

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Speaker 3: just WA's the space.

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Speaker 1: So is Bruce Lherman up for some legal costs?

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Speaker 2: Is he? Well?

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Speaker 3: I mean Channel ten has popped up in the federal

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Speaker 3: court today and said, I mean, look, his failed defamation

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Speaker 3: cost us almost well three and a half million dollars.

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Speaker 2: We're prepared to accept two million dollars as partial payment

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Speaker 2: for mister Luhrman. Well, good luck with that.

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Speaker 3: He hasn't got two brush tax to rub together the Obviously,

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Speaker 3: Luhmann sued Channel ten over that interview. He was defamed,

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Speaker 3: he said, in an interview that ten conducted with Britney

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Speaker 3: Higgins in which he alleged she'd been raped Parliament House.

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Speaker 3: So Lermann missed that he failed to prove that Ten

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Speaker 3: had defamed him. He's been ordered now to pay two

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Speaker 3: million dollars. Well, good luck doesn't have the cash. Lisa Wilkinson, also,

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Speaker 3: we understand, has now settled her dispute with Channel ten.

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Speaker 3: She wasn't happy with the legal team that Ten had assembled,

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Speaker 3: she went out and hired her own silks. Well, that

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Speaker 3: bill came into about one and a half one point

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Speaker 3: seven million dollars, and Ten's now agreed to pay half

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Speaker 3: a million dollars of her legal fee, So that means

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Speaker 3: that she's up for over a million dollars herself. It's

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Speaker 3: a mess, never been anything other than a mess, mate,

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Speaker 3: and let's just hope we can draw a line under this.

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Speaker 1: You're too right, Mars, Thank you very much. Enjoy your weekend.

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