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Juiced-up James Magnussen comes last at Enhanced Games · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamiot with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. He's been talking a big game, but
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  Speaker 1: duced up. Australian swore at James Magnuson has finished last
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  Speaker 1: in his one hundred metres freestyle race at the Enhanced Games.
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  Speaker 1: Magnuson was decked out in a gold swimsuit for the event,
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  Speaker 1: which has been harshly criticized by the World Anti Doping
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  Speaker 1: Agency and the Olympic Committee. Magnuson, who's now thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: was more than two and a half seconds slower than
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  Speaker 1: his personal best in the one hundred meters event. In
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  Speaker 1: another race of the Enhanced Games, American Hunter Armstrong, who
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  Speaker 1: says he's never taken performance enhancing drugs, beat doped athletes
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  Speaker 1: to win the fifty meters backstroke. The government's controversial capital
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  Speaker 1: gains tax reforms may not go ahead as originally planned.
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  Speaker 1: That's after a backlash from entrepreneurs and small business owners
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  Speaker 1: who say ditching the fifty percent capital gains tax discount
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  Speaker 1: in favor of inflation indexation could push Australian innovation offshore.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Albanesi said on Monday, a carve out for the
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  Speaker 1: tech sector would be expanded to other industries, a big
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  Speaker 1: difference from the narrow concessions considered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
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  Speaker 1: The Prime Minister said his government was consulting with the
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  Speaker 1: Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Council of
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  Speaker 1: Small Business Organizations on the policy. Slain police killer Desi
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  Speaker 1: Freeman said he had quote no choice but to shoot
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  Speaker 1: two officers who attended his rural Victorian property to serve
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  Speaker 1: an arrest warrant. Detective Leading Senior Constable Neil Thompson and
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  Speaker 1: Senior Constable Vadim de Warhota traveled to the property as
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  Speaker 1: part of a group of ten officers in late August.
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  Speaker 1: They intended to arrest Freeman for alleged child sex offenses
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  Speaker 1: and seize his electronic devices, but Freeman shot and killed
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  Speaker 1: Detective Thompson and Senior Constable de Warhota in a violent
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  Speaker 1: ambush Theoria. When Coroner's Court heard on Monday, footage from
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  Speaker 1: body worn cameras captured Freeman repeatedly saying I had no choice.
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  Speaker 1: In relation to the fatal shootings. He also reportedly told
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  Speaker 1: officers attending the property to quote die in hell. The
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  Speaker 1: court also heard Freeman took a police issued firearm from
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  Speaker 1: one of the slain officers and fired at the group.
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  Speaker 1: Freeman fled into the Victorian high country following the incident.
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  Speaker 1: He was shot dead by police at a property in
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  Speaker 1: Victoria's northeast last month. The Victorian Coroner's Court is hearing
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  Speaker 1: an inquest into Freeman's death and the death of the
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  Speaker 1: two officers. Ten people, including six crew, were injured on
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  Speaker 1: a Cafe Pacific flight from Brisbane to Hong Kong on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday when the A three fifty aircraft encountered so called
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  Speaker 1: clear air turbulence. That's when air suddenly changes speed and
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  Speaker 1: direction in clear skies, making it invisible to pilots. Cabin
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  Speaker 1: cruz serving breakfast in economy class of flight c X one.
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  Speaker 1: Five six were reportedly thrown into the ceiling of the plane,
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  Speaker 1: with eight of the ten people heard taken to hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Hong Kong for further treatment. Journalist Chung Lay is
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  Speaker 1: taking her memoir to the stage. The play, titled one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty four Days, will open this week
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  Speaker 1: at Melbourne's Arts House. It's been adapted from her book
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  Speaker 1: Chung Lay a memoir of Freedom, which reflects on the
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  Speaker 1: three years she spent in a Chinese prison on trumped
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  Speaker 1: up espionage charges. She was reunited with her family in
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne in twenty twenty three following intense diplomatic efforts. Chung
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  Speaker 1: Lay told The Australian's Chief Culture correspondent Tim Douglas she
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  Speaker 1: expects her play will prompt backlash from Beijing, but the
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  Speaker 1: Sky News presenter said the show must go on. Check
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  Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at the Australian dot
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  Speaker 1: com dot a U and come back to the front
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at the
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  Speaker 1: latest from the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion,
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  Speaker 1: including evidence given by Australia's spy chief Mike Burges. That's
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  Speaker 1: right here, Thursday morning.