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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the push to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Donna de Mayo, our Australia correspondent, Donna, good morning, good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you. Good so you don't want Andrew as
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  Speaker 1: your king?
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  Speaker 2: Surprise, surprise. Look, we had heard, we had heard that
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  Speaker 2: the British government was considering passing a law that would
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  Speaker 2: remove Andrew Mountbatten Winsor's succession rights, and of course this
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  Speaker 2: followed his arrest then release without charge. We have now
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  Speaker 2: heard that Anthony Alberanezi has told the British PM that
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  Speaker 2: the Australian government would agree to any proposal to remove
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  Speaker 2: Andrew from the line of rayal succession. Now he remains
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  Speaker 2: eighth in line to the throne. So mister Albinezi is
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  Speaker 2: the first leader of a Commonwealth country to confirm support
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  Speaker 2: for legislation that would strip Andrew of succession rights. And
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  Speaker 2: he actually wrote this to his British counterpart to let
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  Speaker 2: him know of Australia's position. It looks it's a very
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  Speaker 2: complex legal framework that would surround this changing of the
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  Speaker 2: line of succession, but it means that these changes require
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  Speaker 2: are all countries where King Charles is head of state,
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  Speaker 2: including Australia, to pass new law. So the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: has said these are grave allegations and Australia takes them
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  Speaker 2: very seriously. So he's made that move.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's interesting what did the Australian public think of that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, down at the pub, because I had spoke
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  Speaker 3: to our deputy Prime Minister here going called David Seymour
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  Speaker 3: about this last week and he said, so many people
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  Speaker 3: have to die in order that he would actually become king.
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  Speaker 3: It's not probably not worth your time passing a law. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I think I can't speak for all Australians, but I
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  Speaker 2: think they, you know, just in case, I think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to support that move, just just saying all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and you've got a monsoon low heading your way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is quite nasty. In fact, some areas of
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  Speaker 2: Australia could actually get a year's worth of rain in
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  Speaker 2: just one week. And these are parts of South Australia
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  Speaker 2: right across Queensland and New South Wales. And of course
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  Speaker 2: there's a risk of a great deal of flash flooding
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  Speaker 2: with its monsoon low. The forecast obviously follows this record
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  Speaker 2: breaking heat that we've suffered through in recent times. The
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  Speaker 2: Bureau Mineorology has issued these quite a number of severe
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  Speaker 2: weather warnings for today, and we know that intense rainfalls expected.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, some places could get brace yourself two hundred
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  Speaker 2: to three one hundred millimeters of rain over just a
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  Speaker 2: handful of days. And Melbourne isn't in the clear either.
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  Speaker 2: We've got thunderstorms coming, we've got heavy rain, flash flooding,
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  Speaker 2: so it's going to be a land of extremes throughout
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  Speaker 2: the day and the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Of the week. Don appreciate that. Dono dema Our, Australia correspondent.
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