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- 0:02Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamiott with the
- 0:05Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Susan Lee says she has no plans
- 0:12Speaker 1: to resign as Liberal Party leader and she's confident she'll
- 0:15Speaker 1: be in the top job when Parliament returns next month.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Please leadership was thrown into doubt when the Nationals dramatically
- 0:23Speaker 1: walked away from the coalition over a disagreement about the
- 0:26Speaker 1: government's new hate speech laws, but she left the door
- 0:30Speaker 1: open for a second reunification of the coalition, and she
- 0:34Speaker 1: said she's proud of her party's efforts to pass the
- 0:36Speaker 1: hate speech legislation drafted in the wake of the December
- 0:40Speaker 1: fourteen terror attack at Bondi Beach.
- 0:43Speaker 2: I am absolutely confident in the leadership that I have delivered,
- 0:49Speaker 2: the leadership I will deliver, and the strength of effort
- 0:55Speaker 2: that my party and I are making every single day.
- 0:59Speaker 2: The coalition is stronger together and the leaders of our
- 1:03Speaker 2: two great parties have a responsibility to work together constructively
- 1:09Speaker 2: and calmly to make sure that we deliver what Australians
- 1:13Speaker 2: expect of us, a strong, principled opposition.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Questions are also swirling about David Littlebrowd's leadership of the Nationals,
- 1:22Speaker 1: but he says his focus is on his party's policies.
- 1:26Speaker 3: It's a good opportunity for them to work themselves through
- 1:28Speaker 3: to work out who they are. But we'll focus on
- 1:31Speaker 3: the people we represent and we'll go to Cander with
- 1:33Speaker 3: them and make sure their voices are heard.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Naomi Osaka apologized for what she called a disrespectful post
- 1:42Speaker 1: match interview following her victory over Romanian tennis veteran Sarana Cistia.
- 1:48Speaker 1: In the interview, Osaka referred to a heated exchange at
- 1:50Speaker 1: the nets where Cistia accused her of not knowing what
- 1:54Speaker 1: fair play is. She said she believed Cirstia may have
- 1:57Speaker 1: been frustrated by her attempts to hype herself up between serves.
- 2:03Speaker 4: I tried to play well. I think I hit a
- 2:05Speaker 4: lot on four stairs, but I tried my best. She's
- 2:08Speaker 4: a great player. I think this was her last Australian Open,
- 2:11Speaker 4: so okay. Sorry.
- 2:14Speaker 1: She was mad about it, but Osaka later walked back
- 2:17Speaker 1: her comments in a press conference.
- 2:21Speaker 4: I'm a little confused, but like I get that emotions
- 2:24Speaker 4: were very high for her, and I also want to apologize.
- 2:28Speaker 4: I think like when I'm plumping myself up in my head,
- 2:31Speaker 4: I'm not like okay, and now I'm going to distract
- 2:34Speaker 4: the other person like it's purely for me.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Australians Rose Byrne, Jacob Alordi and Nick Cave have scored
- 2:44Speaker 1: OSCAR nominations ahead of this year's Academy Awards. Burne is
- 2:48Speaker 1: nominated in the Best Actress category for her performance in
- 2:51Speaker 1: psychological comedy Drama If I had Legs, I'd kick you,
- 2:55Speaker 1: where she plays a mother on the edge.
- 2:58Speaker 3: I'm supposed to know how to fix this.
- 2:59Speaker 1: I'm supposed to know how to effects her.
- 3:01Speaker 4: What is it you think it's your job defects.
- 3:05Speaker 2: I'm asking you what I suppose to know? Can you
- 3:08Speaker 2: hear me? A?
- 3:09Speaker 1: Lordie is up for a Best Supporting Actor gong for
- 3:12Speaker 1: his role in Frankenstein, while the singer Nick Cave is
- 3:15Speaker 1: nominated for Best Original Song for Train Dreams from the
- 3:18Speaker 1: film of the same name. Vampire Epic Sinners became the
- 3:22Speaker 1: most nominated film in oscar's history, with sixteen nominations, including
- 3:27Speaker 1: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Check out those
- 3:35Speaker 1: stories live right now at the Australian dot Com dot
- 3:38Speaker 1: a U and come back to the front next week