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Speaker 1: Already and this this is the DAILYA.

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Speaker 2: This is the Daily OS.

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Speaker 1: Oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: the first of May.

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Speaker 1: I'm Zara, I'm sam.

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Speaker 3: This week, a hate speech trial against One Nation leader

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Speaker 3: Pauline Hanson has begun in the Federal Court.

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Speaker 1: A defamation trial between Deputy Green's leader Marine Ferruki and

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Speaker 1: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has begun, with Australia's hate

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Speaker 1: speech laws expected to be put to the test.

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Speaker 2: Well National leader Pauline Hanson has been accused of unleashing

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Speaker 2: a torrent of public racist abuse against Green senator Marine Ferruki,

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Speaker 2: including threats against her life. The case, brought by Green

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Speaker 2: Senator Marine Ferruki, centers around an exchange on social media

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Speaker 2: following the death of Queen Elizabeth.

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Speaker 3: It comes after Hansen was accused of racially discriminating against

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Speaker 3: Green's deputy leader Marie Ferruki in a social media post

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Speaker 3: from twenty twenty two. Hanson and Faruki have both faced

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Speaker 3: questioning so far in the hearing, so on today's podcast,

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Speaker 3: we're going to explain a bit about the context of

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Speaker 3: the case and what could happen next before we get

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Speaker 3: there though, sam what's making headlines.

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Speaker 1: Budget airline BONSA has entered voluntary administration. It comes after

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Speaker 1: the Australian carrier announced the cancelation of all flights on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. Virgin and Quantas responded to the cancelations by

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Speaker 1: offering free flights to impacted passengers. Bonza became the first

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Speaker 1: low cost independent airline to launch in Australia in fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: when its services began only in January of last year.

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Speaker 1: A notice filed to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission

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Speaker 1: or ASSEK on Tuesday shows Bonza has appointed an external

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Speaker 1: accounting firm to wind up its business operations.

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Speaker 3: A university in Melbourne has admitted to underpaying its casual

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Speaker 3: staff by two point eight five million dollars. Swimburn University

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Speaker 3: and its affiliate Swimburne College self reported the unintentional error

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Speaker 3: that impacted almost two thousand employees between twenty seventeen and

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. It comes after the union representing university

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Speaker 3: staff raised concerns of underemployments in the sector in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty two. The university has apologized and said it's working

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Speaker 3: on repaying affected staff.

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Speaker 1: Solomon Island's Prime Minister, Manasse Sagovare has announced he won't

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Speaker 1: return as leader after recent elections. Polling in the South

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Speaker 1: Pacific nation showed no clear winner. After last week's vote,

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Speaker 1: Solomon Islands signed a security agreement with China in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two that raised concerns from the Australian government about

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Speaker 1: increased tension in the Pacific region. Sagovari became Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and it's not yet clear who will

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Speaker 1: take over as leader.

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Speaker 3: And today's good news, Australian researchers have made a breakthrough

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Speaker 3: towards developing a long term flu vaccine that would protect

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Speaker 3: recipients from multiple strains of the virus. The discovery from

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Speaker 3: the University of Melbourne brings scientists a step closer to

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Speaker 3: developing a replacement for the yearly flu JAB Flu vaccines

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Speaker 3: are usually updated yearly to keep up with mutations of

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Speaker 3: the virus. However, new research could see a universal vaccine

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Speaker 3: formulated so sam this week, a hate speech trial against

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Speaker 3: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has begun in the Federal Court. Now.

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Speaker 3: It all centers around comments that Hansen made on social

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Speaker 3: media back in twenty twenty two, when she was accused

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Speaker 3: of racially discriminating against Green's deputy leader Marine Feruki. So

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Speaker 3: far we've seen both Hanson and Feruki face questioning this week.

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Speaker 1: And what was the post that actually kicked all of

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Speaker 1: this off if we go right to the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the case.

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Speaker 3: So in a social media post following the death of

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Speaker 3: Queen Elizabeth this second, you'll remember that was in September

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty two. You were on holidays. I was

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Speaker 3: slicsfully unaware.

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Speaker 1: I was away what you werewa.

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Speaker 3: Was sleeping anyway at that time Marine Ferruki, who as

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Speaker 3: I said, is a Green senator. She wrote it was

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Speaker 3: then on Twitter now on x saying condolences to those

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Speaker 3: who mourn the queen. I cannot mourn the leader of

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Speaker 3: a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth

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Speaker 3: of colonized peoples. She called for a treaty with First Nations,

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Speaker 3: justice and reparations for British colonies. In response, Pauline Hansen

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Speaker 3: told Feruiki to quote piss off back to Pakistan. And

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Speaker 3: it's that comment that Mariene Feruki is claiming was hate speech.

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Speaker 1: So Pauline Hanson fires off a tweets towards Marine Ferruki

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. What's happened from then to now?

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Speaker 3: Yes, So, shortly after the tweets were posted, Marine Ferruki

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Speaker 3: moved to what's called censure Pauline Hanson in the Federal Senate.

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Speaker 3: And essentially what a center is is a formal statement

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Speaker 3: disapproval of a politician's actions or policies, doesn't have any

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Speaker 3: legal consequences and doesn't really hold much weight. We've seen

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Speaker 3: a number of politicians censured and never really translates outside

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like being told off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Fariki urged her fellow senators to condemn Hanson's

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Speaker 3: quote divisive, anti migrant and racist statement, which she had

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Speaker 3: said unleashed an avalanche of hate. Instead, Labor and Coalition

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Speaker 3: senators passed a general motion at the time condemning racism

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Speaker 3: and discrimination in all its.

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Speaker 1: Forms, so she didn't really get the response from the

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Speaker 3: She didn't, and so from their Marine Ferruki moved to

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Speaker 3: lodge a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission. However,

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Speaker 3: when Pauline Hanson refused to participate in an investigation. There,

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Speaker 3: Marine Fruki ended up pursuing legal action instead, and that's

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Speaker 3: how we get to hear So Marine Feruki is arguing

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Speaker 3: in this legal action that Pauline Hansen engaged in unlawful

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Speaker 3: offensive behavior and that that is a breach of Australia's

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Speaker 3: racial discrimination laws. As part of this case, Ferruki has

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Speaker 3: also provided expert analysis of social media users responses to

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Speaker 3: Pauline Hanson's post.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's what Farruki is arguing in court. What

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Speaker 1: does Pauline Hanson say in response to all of this?

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Speaker 3: Pauline Hanson is denying that the tweets were made based

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Speaker 3: on race. Her lawyers have made two main defenses. So

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Speaker 3: the first is that the post is protected by fair

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Speaker 3: comment on a matter of public interest, so arguing there

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Speaker 3: that Hanson therefore had a right to make a statement

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Speaker 3: defending the monarchy right. The second point that her lawyers

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Speaker 3: implied but not an expressly stated right of political communication,

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Speaker 3: meaning that both Pauline Hanson and Marine Ferruki have a

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Speaker 3: right to engage in political debate.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Interesting, So Pauline Hanson. Ultimately, there isn't denying she

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Speaker 1: ever said it. I mean it's there in writing what

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Speaker 1: she's said.

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Speaker 3: I can't deny it. Yeah, millions of people.

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Speaker 1: Right, So what she's saying is she was allowed to

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Speaker 1: say it because of those political and public interest defenses.

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Speaker 1: So both sides are bringing those arguments to court this week.

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Speaker 1: What have we heard in the court so far? So?

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Speaker 3: Day one started with Marine Ferruki up as a witness,

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Speaker 3: and she was arguing, as expected, that Pauline Hanson's tweet

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Speaker 3: In response, Hanson's lawyer, Sue chrisent Thau argued, and I'll

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Speaker 3: far worse than the conduct that you complain about in

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Speaker 3: relation to my client. Christentthu went on to claim that

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Speaker 3: the barrage of abuse that Feriki said she had faced

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Speaker 3: was actually due to her own tweet, which was described

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Speaker 3: by the lawyer as provocative. Fariki rejected this premise, and

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Speaker 3: she said that Hanson was a well known, longstanding and

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Speaker 1: Okay, So then Marine Feriki went off the stand in

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Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson then took over. What did she have to say?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So on day two, Pauline Hansen took to the

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Speaker 3: essentially just played a number of clips of comments that

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen when she said, and I quote here, Islam

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Speaker 3: was a disease that people need to vaccinate themselves from.

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Speaker 3: So Faruki's lawyers were claiming that Hansen told her to

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Speaker 3: Marine Ferruki, she didn't know that she was Muslim. So

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Speaker 3: is that kind of questioning and back and forth that occurred.

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Speaker 3: On the second day of the hearing, Hanson spoke of

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Speaker 3: feeling incensed and insulted by Ferruki's tweet.

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Speaker 1: So this is ongoing. We'll keep everybody updated as this

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Speaker 1: case progresses. But Fariki brought this case against Hanson in

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Speaker 1: the beginning, what is she actually looking for here?

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Speaker 3: If she wins, she's asking for an apology from Pauline

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Speaker 3: Hanson and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in compensation

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Speaker 3: to be paid towards a charity. Whether or not she

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking us through that, Zara. We'll bring everybody

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Speaker 1: the result, perhaps in a news story when that gets

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Speaker 1: passed down by the court, and who knows how long.

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