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Headlines: PM dodges questions on parliamentary travel entitlements · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christanamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi won't say if
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  Speaker 1: his government will make changes to parliamentary travel entitlements after
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  Speaker 1: the travel bills of Communications Minister Arnica Wells came under
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  Speaker 1: intense scrutiny. The PM did say his government hasn't changed
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  Speaker 1: the rules or added anything new. Australians traveling to the
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  Speaker 1: United States will soon need to hand over their social
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  Speaker 1: media profiles, as well as DNA fingerprints and family history information.
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of an overhaul of the Electronic System
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  Speaker 1: for Travel Authorization or EESTA by the Department of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 1: and they say it's designed to make America a safer place.
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  Speaker 1: The New South Wales Supreme Court justice who convicted former
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  Speaker 1: school teacher Chris Dawson of the nineteen eighty two murder
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  Speaker 1: of his wife Lynnette, is hanging up.
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  Speaker 2: His Christopher Michael Dawson, on the charge that on are
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  Speaker 2: about eight January nineteen eighty two, at Dayview or elsewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the state of New South Wales, you did murder
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  Speaker 2: Lynette Dawson. I find you guilty.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Ian Harrison will wind up his duty as the
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  Speaker 1: Chief Judge at common Law in the New South Wales
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court in January, after eighteen years of service. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be appointed as Acting Judge of Appeal from February. Listeners
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  Speaker 1: to The Australian's investigative podcast series The Teacher's Pet and
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  Speaker 1: The Teacher's Trial will remember Dawson was tried for murder
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  Speaker 1: before Justice Harrison alone in twenty twenty two. The former
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  Speaker 1: Newtown Jets rugby league star was convicted and subsequently sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to twenty four years in prison with a non parole
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  Speaker 1: period of eighteen years by the Justice.
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  Speaker 2: I recognize that the unavoidable, unavoidable prospect is that mister
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  Speaker 2: Dawson will probably die in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Harrison was formerly farewelled at a ceremony in the
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  Speaker 1: Banco Court, the New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. Referring to the formal gowns and whigs donned
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  Speaker 1: by justices for such occasions, Harrison quipped that his grandchildren,
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  Speaker 1: who were in attendance at the ceremony along with his
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  Speaker 1: wife and four children, probably thought they were at a
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  Speaker 1: Santa Claus convention. After a long and successful career in
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  Speaker 1: the law, first as a barrister and then as a judge.
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  Speaker 1: He said he could always rely on his loved ones
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  Speaker 1: to let him know if he'd decided a case correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Harrison said, quote, despite what the High Court might think,
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  Speaker 1: in my experience, families in general and partners in particular
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be the ultimate authority to whom we, as
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  Speaker 1: judges must defer. Check out those stories live right now
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  Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning.