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Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS. Oh,

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Speaker 1: now it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: the thirtieth of October.

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Speaker 3: I'm Zara, I'm Sam.

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Alberesi has been accused of directly asking

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Speaker 2: the former CEO of Quantus, Alan Joyce, for free undisclosed

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Speaker 2: flight upgrades. The allegation has been detailed in a new

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Speaker 2: book by journalist Joe Aston Now. Following the publishing of

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Speaker 2: an excerpt of that book over the weekend, the Opposition

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Speaker 2: has said it will consider establishing a senate inquiry into

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Speaker 2: the matter. The PM, on the other hand, has suggested

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Speaker 2: the claims come from a person who is just trying

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Speaker 2: to sell a book. In today's deep Dive, we'll explain

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Speaker 2: everything you need to know about Anthony Alberesi and Quantas

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Speaker 2: First Sam.

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Speaker 1: What's making headlines.

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Speaker 3: The Victorian government has introduce new laws to improve legal

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Speaker 3: processes for victims of violent and sexual crimes. Under legislation

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Speaker 3: tabled in State Parliament on Tuesday, victims and witnesses of

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Speaker 3: family violence, sexual offenses and stalking cases would only be

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Speaker 3: required to give evidence during court proceedings and not during

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Speaker 3: pre trial hearings. The measure is aimed at avoiding processes

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Speaker 3: that could retraumatize victims by making them repeat their testimonies

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Speaker 3: several times. The government has also proposed making videolink court

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Speaker 3: appearances the default for alleged offenders. It says this would

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Speaker 3: help victims to avoid having to unnecessarily come face to

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Speaker 3: face with a perpetrator. Victorian State Attorney General Jacqueline Simes

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Speaker 3: says survivors quote deserve justice, not further trauma as they

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Speaker 2: Mayer has announced plans to take over several popular Aussie brands,

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Speaker 2: including just Genes, JJ's, Dotty and Portman's. It comes after

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Speaker 2: the department store Giant announced a nine hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollar acquisition of apparel brand, a clothing arm of

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Speaker 2: Premier Investments. Premier said it will retain ownership over Smiggle

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Speaker 2: and Peter Alexander to focus on growing the stationery and

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Speaker 2: sleepwear brands. Premier and Maya shareholders will need to approve

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Speaker 2: the deal before the department store can merge with apparel brands.

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Speaker 2: If it goes ahead, the retail group would own more

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Speaker 2: than seven hundred and eighty stores. Across Australia and New

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Speaker 2: Zealand and employ more than seventeen thousand people.

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Speaker 3: Israel's parliament has voted to ban the United Nations Relief

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Speaker 3: and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, otherwise known as UNRA.

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Speaker 3: It means the key aid body delivering aid in Kaza

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Speaker 3: will not be allowed to operate in Israel, which could

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Speaker 3: impact the flow of aid into the region. Earlier this year,

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Speaker 3: Israel claimed UNRASTAFF had been involved in Hamas's attack on

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Speaker 3: October seven. A UN investigation found nine staff members who

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Speaker 3: Foreign Minister Pennywong has urged Israel to reconsider the ban.

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Speaker 2: And finally, today's good news, a record number of women

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Speaker 2: have been elected to Japan's lower House of Parliament. Seventy

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Speaker 2: three female candidates were successful after Sunday's election, which means

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Speaker 2: women will now make up about sixteen percent of Japan's

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Speaker 2: House of Representatives. That's compared to a global average of

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Speaker 2: twenty seven percent. The main opposition party in Japan, the

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Speaker 2: CDPJ saw the most women elected of all the parties,

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with the Deep Dive after this short break.

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Speaker 2: Sam, I'd say it's fairly rare for a book to

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Speaker 2: make such a splash before it's even been released. So

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Speaker 2: this book was only released yesterday. Joe Asen's new book.

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Speaker 3: Hang On, No Silly Questions The Daily Ores September twenty

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Speaker 1: See wall to wall coverage of that book too.

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Speaker 3: Senat quies the whole lot not. This book's probably a

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Speaker 2: It is, so just to give you a bit of context,

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Speaker 2: this book released by Joe Aston yesterday is called The

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Speaker 2: Papers release an excerpt of that book. And in that

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Speaker 3: It's really important to understand who Joe Aston is because

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Speaker 2: Is so Joe Aston is not just an author. He

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Speaker 3: One of the worst things for somebody to wake up

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Speaker 2: And someone that knew that reality all too well was

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Speaker 2: Aston spent a lot of his journalistic time covering Quantus,

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Speaker 2: Aston and Quantus continued to grow and grow and grow,

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Speaker 3: I remember they literally took out the hard copies of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And so I think it's fair to say,

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Speaker 2: to summarize why Joe Aston gets the response that he

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Speaker 3: And then when the excerpt of the book ran in

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Speaker 3: What did we learn?

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Speaker 2: So in that excerpt it was revealed that Anthony Albanesi,

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Speaker 2: of course the Prime Minister, received more than twenty flight

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Speaker 2: upgrades between two thousand and nine and twenty nineteen. Family

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Speaker 2: of them were personal. The book, citing anonymous Quantus Insiders,

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Speaker 2: claims Albanizi asked Joyce directly to upgrade his flights, while

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Speaker 2: what's being claimed here by Aston is that Anthony ALBERIZI

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Speaker 1: The top job.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so what Joe Aston is trying to highlight, I

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Speaker 2: And I think that's what goes to the heart of

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Speaker 2: And I think that it's not, as you said, a

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Speaker 2: strange that Albinizi allegedly asked for these upgrades. He said,

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Speaker 3: So one other aspect to this story that the Opposition,

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Speaker 3: Albanese government in twenty twenty three to block a bid

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Speaker 3: She said during the week, both Prime Minister Anthony Abernesi

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Speaker 3: whether there was any pressure from the Prime Minister or

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Speaker 3: blocking Qatar Airways application for these flights.

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Speaker 2: Again, that is just an allegation that is being made

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Speaker 2: So to the point of the upgrades, Alberanzi has said

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Speaker 4: All of my flights have been declared in an appropriate way,

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Speaker 4: just as Peter Dutton declared his flights or some of

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Speaker 4: My flights were commercial with Quantus or Virgin or Emirates.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, ministers in Albanese's government and suddenly heard a bit

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Speaker 2: We've had Senior Minister Murray what calling the story unsourced

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Speaker 3: It seems like every couple of months there's a news

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