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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. Give China a bit more credit
- 0:09Speaker 1: for saving the planet. That's the message from former Victorian
- 0:12Speaker 1: Premier Daniel Andrews, who's been in the headlines this week
- 0:16Speaker 1: for attending Shijinping's Parade of Military Might and dictator Buddies
- 0:20Speaker 1: in Beijing, The Australians revealed today Andrews gave an interview
- 0:24Speaker 1: to Chinese TV where he said China doesn't get enough
- 0:28Speaker 1: thanks for making the shift to renewables and.
- 0:31Speaker 2: If you look at China's record, massive investments and a
- 0:34Speaker 2: big switch, a very big switch, one that I don't
- 0:37Speaker 2: think China quite gets the international credit and acclaim for
- 0:41Speaker 2: that it should get.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Victims of the Commonwealth's Robodette disaster will get nearly half
- 0:46Speaker 1: a billion dollars in compensation as the Albaneze government tries
- 0:50Speaker 1: to resolve outstanding grievances. The four hundred and seventy five
- 0:54Speaker 1: million dollar figure is a settlement proposed as part of
- 0:57Speaker 1: a fresh class action, and Attorney General Michelle says it's
- 1:01Speaker 1: now over to the Federal Court to approve the deal.
- 1:04Speaker 1: That's on top of a previous class action in twenty
- 1:07Speaker 1: twenty that resulted in a refund of over a billion dollars.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
- 1:16Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front
- 1:18Speaker 1: tomorrow as we dig into a big story that's making
- 1:22Speaker 1: the federal government very uncomfortable, the return of several former
- 1:26Speaker 1: ISIS brides and children from the Middle East.