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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday, the sixteenth

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Speaker 1: of September. I'm Emma, I'm Chloe. A court case out

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Speaker 1: of France has captured the attention of the world these

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Speaker 2: You've probably seen the headlines, but there's a lot that's

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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore has secured her sixth

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Speaker 1: Gizelle Pelico is the woman at the center of a

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Speaker 1: the global interest in this story has exploded in recent weeks,

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Speaker 1: in the future. Chloe, this is an incredibly disturbing case

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Speaker 1: So a big part of this story, Chloe, is to

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Speaker 2: But instead Gazelle Pelico has insisted on complete total publicity,

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Speaker 1: Has she said why she wants her name published and

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Speaker 2: There have been growing calls to change the country's attitudes

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Speaker 1: In practical terms for women in France, what does that

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Speaker 2: It's opened up a conversation about what the French government

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Speaker 1: Chloe, thank you so much for taking us through that today,

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Speaker 1: a really distressing but important case. We will pop some

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