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‘Strip Grace Tame’s Australian of the Year honours’: Joyce · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm christan Amio with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Barnaby Joyce says Grace Tame should
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  Speaker 1: be stripped of her Australian of the Year honors after
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  Speaker 1: she led a chance of globalize the Interfada at a
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  Speaker 1: pro Palestine protest in Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: You have a responsibility, when given in honor by the
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  Speaker 2: Australian people, to basically conduct yourself in a way that
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  Speaker 2: inspires the harmonious nature of Australia. I know she had
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  Speaker 2: a tumultuous childhood, we don't deny that, but that is
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  Speaker 2: not a license therefore to go on out and be
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  Speaker 2: a John provocateur and to stir up the Australian people.
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  Speaker 2: And when we look at the actual narrative she's talking
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  Speaker 2: about the removal of the Jewish people. Now that's just
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  Speaker 2: completely unacceptable because if people are to follow her screeching
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  Speaker 2: from the steps, then they are going to go out
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  Speaker 2: and hurt people.
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  Speaker 1: Police say approximately six thousand people gathered at Sydney Town
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  Speaker 1: Hall on Monday to protest a visit by Israeli President
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  Speaker 1: Isaac Hertzog. Tame, who was Australian of the Year in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one for her advocacy for survivors of sexual assault.
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  Speaker 1: Told the assembled crowd Herzog is a quote war criminal
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  Speaker 1: and an inciter of genocide, before leading.
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  Speaker 3: The chant, a so called democracy that punishes peace protesters
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  Speaker 3: like us bug welcomes a war criminal with open arm,
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  Speaker 3: a man who signed his name on woms that were
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  Speaker 3: used to kill.
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales Premier Chris Mins said the protest was
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  Speaker 1: a distressing scene and defended his decision to declare Herzog's
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  Speaker 1: visit a major event, a move that made it illegal
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  Speaker 1: for the protesters to march from Sydney's town Hall to Parliament,
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  Speaker 1: how and gave police extra powers to move them along.
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales Police said twenty seven people were arrested
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  Speaker 1: at the rally, including ten people for assaulting officers after
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  Speaker 1: the scene descended into violence. Nine people, seven men and
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  Speaker 1: two women, were charged with assault and public order offenses
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. The force was criticized in turn for using
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  Speaker 1: excessive force against protesters, but Premier Minn said they were
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  Speaker 1: in an impossible situation trying to keep protesters away from
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  Speaker 1: the convention center down the hill at Darling Harbor, where
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  Speaker 1: Herzog was attending a memorial service for victims of the
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  Speaker 1: Bondai Beach terror attack with members of the Jewish community.
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  Speaker 3: What you saw last night was New South Wales police
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  Speaker 3: being confronted multiple times by a section of that crowd
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  Speaker 3: in ten on disturbing and disrupting police lines. Now what
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  Speaker 3: we can say today that we couldn't say yesterday is
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  Speaker 3: that we had concurrently seven thousand mourners down at the
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  Speaker 3: National Convention Center who were mourning the horrible events of
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  Speaker 3: the fourteenth of December with the President of Israel. New
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  Speaker 3: South Wales police had to keep both protesters and mourners separate.
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  Speaker 3: Sos that as disturbing as the scenes were last night
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  Speaker 3: on the news, they weren't even worse as a result
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  Speaker 3: of thousands of people clashing together on the streets of Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales Police Commissioner Mel Lanyon said he's proud
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  Speaker 1: of the force's response, but said footage from body worn
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  Speaker 1: cameras would be reviewed. The rally went ahead after the
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  Speaker 1: Palestine Action Group lost an eleventh hour court bid to
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  Speaker 1: have the Premier's Major Event declaration dropped. Representative Josh Lees
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  Speaker 1: said the group refused to be quote shunted off after
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  Speaker 1: making what he called several concessions regarding demonstrations over the
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  Speaker 1: last two and a half years. American alpine Skierre Lindsay
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn will need multiple surgeries to repair her broken tibia
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  Speaker 1: after she crashed during the war women's downhill event at
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  Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics in Milan on Sunday, but the five
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  Speaker 1: time Olympians said in a post on social media she
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  Speaker 1: has no regrets about her participation in the event. Vaughn
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  Speaker 1: also said an earlier injury, a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament
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  Speaker 1: sustained in a World Cup race before the Games, had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the crash. Angus Taylor could resign
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  Speaker 1: from Susan Lee's front bench as early as Wednesday, triggering
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  Speaker 1: a leadership spill in the embattled Liberal Party. That's the
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  Speaker 1: expectation of some members of the party, who say it's
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  Speaker 1: the most likely turn of events, but leading conservatives say
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  Speaker 1: no decisions have been made about when a spill will happen.
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  Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
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  Speaker 1: front first thing in the morning.