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How Dolly Parton planned what happens next · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Clare Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. Beloved artist, savvy businesswoman, aunt granny
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  Speaker 1: to her family, just Dolly to the world. The incomparable
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton made detailed plans for her legacy starting now.
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  Speaker 1: From how the news was broken to funeral plans and
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  Speaker 1: an archive of thousands of unreleased songs, including some with
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  Speaker 1: specific release dates two decades hence. Dolly Parton said she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be remembered as a songwriter. In fact, it
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  Speaker 1: will be much more than that. She was one of
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  Speaker 1: the most significant cultural figures of this century and the last.
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  Speaker 1: Flags across the United States will fly at half-mast for
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  Speaker 1: a week after Dolly Parton died on Tuesday following a
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  Speaker 1: short battle with cancer. As everyone from Beyonce to Eminem
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  Speaker 1: hailed their personal connection and professional inspiration online, Dolly Parton's
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  Speaker 1: thoughtful planning for life after death was revealed by nephew
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  Speaker 1: Brian Seaver.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life
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  Speaker 2: wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and
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  Speaker 2: have some rest.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton once said she wanted the gospel song If
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  Speaker 1: We Never Meet Again played at her funeral, even though
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  Speaker 1: she knew there'd be an expectation of I Will Always
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  Speaker 1: Love You the song she wrote as a tribute to
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  Speaker 1: her former onstage partner Porter Wagoner in the 70s and
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  Speaker 1: Whitney Houston turned into a global phenomenon in the 90s.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton was born into rural poverty in the mid-1940s.
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  Speaker 1: She lived with her 11 siblings and sharecropping parents in
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  Speaker 1: the Great Smoky Mountains in the state of Tennessee, with
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  Speaker 1: no electricity or running water. Brian Seaver said Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 1: had long ago asked him to be the one to
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  Speaker 1: break the news.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her
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  Speaker 2: entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: was possible. Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians,
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  Speaker 2: and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton sold more than 100 million records and scooped
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  Speaker 1: 11 Grammys. She starred in television and movies with the
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  Speaker 1: same combination of personal charm and powerful intelligence. The 1980
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  Speaker 1: movie 9 to 5, alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: starred Parton as a downtrodden secretary taking back control. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing, if you ever say another
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  Speaker 1: word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get that gun of mine and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think I can do it. The Dolly Empire, estimated
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  Speaker 1: to be worth north of $ 500 million, includes a Dollywood
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  Speaker 1: theme park in her home state of Tennessee that attracts
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  Speaker 1: millions of visitors every year. including The Australian's Chief International
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  Speaker 1: Correspondent Cameron Stewart, who's writing about his love and respect
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  Speaker 1: for Dolly at theaustralian.com.au. Vaccination, literacy and lifting children out
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  Speaker 1: of poverty were her philanthropic passions, and Dolly Parton's Imagination
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  Speaker 1: Library program, inspired by her father's lifelong struggle with illiteracy,
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  Speaker 1: has mailed millions of books to children around the world,
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  Speaker 1: free of charge for decades. She also donated a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars to the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in the early
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  Speaker 1: days of the COVID pandemic, accelerating development of the Moderna
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  Speaker 1: mRNA vaccine. Dolly Parton was married to her famously camera-shy
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  Speaker 1: late husband, Carl Dean, for almost five decades. He died
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  Speaker 1: last year, aged 82. Virginia Bell, the Royal Commissioner tasked
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  Speaker 1: with finding solutions to Australia's antisemitism crisis and answering how
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  Speaker 1: the Bondi Beach massacre could possibly have occurred, is asking
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  Speaker 1: for more time to hand down her official report to
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  Speaker 1: avoid overshadowing the December 14 first anniversary of the mass murders.
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  Speaker 1: The former High Court Justice was due to hand down
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  Speaker 1: her findings from the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social
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  Speaker 1: Cohesion on December 14, but said delivering the report on
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  Speaker 1: the anniversary of the massacre in which 15 people were killed,
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  Speaker 1: would be a distraction. Bell will hand her findings to
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  Speaker 1: the Governor-General on December 18, but parts of the report
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  Speaker 1: relating to the massacre will be withheld to avoid prejudicing
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  Speaker 1: the trial of accused gunman Naveed Akram. He's pleaded not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: The Royal Commission's public hearings concluded early on Wednesday, despite
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  Speaker 1: calls from Jewish and former military leaders and the Federal
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  Speaker 1: Coalition to extend it. Check out those stories live right
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  Speaker 1: now at theaustralian.com.au and come back to the front first
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning for our look at the royal
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  Speaker 1: backflip by the UK's prodigal son and ask what's really
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  Speaker 1: driving Prince Harry's return to the UK with his young family.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here Thursday morning.