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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
- 0:04Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A fresh inquiry into the horror
- 0:09Speaker 1: allegedly perpetrated by convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. US authorities will
- 0:14Speaker 1: investigate a compound once owned by Epstein in the state
- 0:18Speaker 1: of New Mexico. A so called truth commission will seek
- 0:21Speaker 1: to identify former staff and guests of Zoro Ranch in
- 0:26Speaker 1: order to substantiate claims of sex trafficking and abuse at
- 0:29Speaker 1: the property, as well as claims two bodies are buried there.
- 0:33Speaker 1: A twenty nineteen email contained in the so called Epstein
- 0:36Speaker 1: files from someone claiming to be a former employee of
- 0:40Speaker 1: the ranch said to quote foreign girls died from strangulation
- 0:45Speaker 1: during quote rough fetish sex at Zoro Ranch. The email
- 0:49Speaker 1: claimed they were later buried under orders from Epstein and
- 0:53Speaker 1: his co conspirator Gilen Maxwell. The truth commission will also
- 0:56Speaker 1: look into state officials who might have known about or
- 0:59Speaker 1: taken part in alleged wrongdoing at the ranch. Prominent accues
- 1:02Speaker 1: of Virginia Jufrey, who died by suicide in Perth in
- 1:05Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Alleged Epstein trafficked her to former New
- 1:10Speaker 1: Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. He denied the allegations before he died.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Two victims who testified at the sex trafficking trial of
- 1:18Speaker 1: Epstein's companion Gilenn Maxwell, alleged in civil lawsuits they were
- 1:22Speaker 1: abused at Zoro Ranch. Epstein died in a Manhattan jail
- 1:26Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Millions of files detailing the convicted pedophiles, business dealings, personal correspondence,
- 1:35Speaker 1: and alleged criminal activity have been released by the US
- 1:39Speaker 1: Department of Justice. Anti Israel author Randa abdel Fhetar will
- 1:45Speaker 1: headline the twenty twenty six Sydney Writers Festival in October.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Organizers say she was invited before her cancelation from Adelaide
- 1:53Speaker 1: Writers Week prompted a mass boycott and caused the event
- 1:56Speaker 1: to collapse. Sydney Writers' Festival artistic director and Bossip and
- 2:00Speaker 1: CEO Brooke Webb say some people might hold different views
- 2:04Speaker 1: to Abdelphatar, but they say their quote not in the
- 2:08Speaker 1: business of canceling or censoring writers. Abdelphatar will appear in
- 2:12Speaker 1: two sessions at the Sydney event, promoting her novel discipline.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Almost two hundred authors withdrew from Adelaide Writer's Week in January.
- 2:21Speaker 1: That was after its board announced Abdelfhatar had been removed
- 2:24Speaker 1: from the program. She's been invited back for the twenty
- 2:28Speaker 1: twenty seven event. Check out those stories live right now
- 2:32Speaker 1: at the Australian dot Com dot u and come back
- 2:35Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for a
- 2:36Speaker 1: close look at the issue that's set Australian politics on fire,
- 2:40Speaker 1: the possible return of a group of so called ISIS
- 2:44Speaker 1: brides from Syria. That's right here Thursday morning,