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Blue Origin rocket explosion lights up Florida skies · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm Christinamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. A Blue Origin rocket launch planned for
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  Speaker 1: next week will be indefinitely delayed after its unmanned New
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  Speaker 1: Glen rocket exploded during an engine test. Homes surrounding the
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  Speaker 1: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida was shaken by
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  Speaker 1: the explosion, while a plume of flames and smoke shot
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  Speaker 1: into the sky. Officials said no one was hurt during
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  Speaker 1: the incident and all personnel are accounted for. Blue Origin
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  Speaker 1: is owned by tech giant. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wrote
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  Speaker 1: in a post on x that it's quote too early
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  Speaker 1: to know the root cause of the explosion, but they're
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  Speaker 1: working to find it. Bezos also said it was a
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  Speaker 1: rough day, but vowed to rebuild the damaged launch vehicle
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  Speaker 1: and quote get back to flying. New Glenn suffered a
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  Speaker 1: previous setback in April when an engine failure caused a
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  Speaker 1: satellite to be left in the wrong orbit. NASA plan
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  Speaker 1: on using the rocket to launch landers to the Moon,
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  Speaker 1: including those that will transport astronauts to the Moon's surface.
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  Speaker 1: The chief executive of KPMG resigned suddenly on Friday, following
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  Speaker 1: a scandal in the consulting firm's audit division. Andrew Yates's
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  Speaker 1: departure is effective immediately, with National Managing Partner of Deal
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  Speaker 1: Advisory and Infrastructure stan Stavross stepping in as interim CEO.
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  Speaker 1: A whistleblower alleged KPMG had improperly used confidential information from
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  Speaker 1: clients like lend Lease to drum up new business, a
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  Speaker 1: claim allegedly denied by Yates to lend Lease boss Tony Lombardo.
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  Speaker 1: The whistleblower's allegations were initially brushed aside by the Big
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  Speaker 1: four consulting firm, but were aired publicly in the Senate
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  Speaker 1: this week. KPMG's National Managing Partner of Audit and Assurance,
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  Speaker 1: Julian McPherson, also resigned, but there's no suggestion he improperly
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  Speaker 1: accessed confidential documents. A tribute show to Australian music legend
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  Speaker 1: John J. Farnham is planned for September, with funds to
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  Speaker 1: be raised for the Head and Neck Cancer Australia charity. Celindon,
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman, Keith Urban, Jimmy Barnes and Tina Arena are
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  Speaker 1: all slated to appear at the event, which will be
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  Speaker 1: held at Melbourne's Rod Labor Arena on September twenty, but
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  Speaker 1: Pansi himself won't be belting out any tunes. He says
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  Speaker 1: his singing days are done after undergoing surgery for a
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two cancer diagnosis. Check out those stories live
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  Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot com dot au, and
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  Speaker 1: come back to the front first thing in the morning
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  Speaker 1: for our look at Amazon's first double O seven, offering
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  Speaker 1: a James Bond video game named First Light. That's right
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  Speaker 1: here Saturday morning,