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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey and
- 0:04Speaker 1: this is an afternoon headlines edition of The Front. Wrangling
- 0:08Speaker 1: today over the anti immigration rallies on city streets over
- 0:11Speaker 1: the weekend, with Independent Senator David Pocock saying Labour's failure
- 0:15Speaker 1: to articulate a clear multicultural strategy is driving community dissent.
- 0:21Speaker 2: At work in the industry. We can't build in our
- 0:25Speaker 2: homes to out the people in the country. We have
- 0:29Speaker 2: had enough. They need to listen to us. Across this
- 0:33Speaker 2: country right now, people are protasting, we are speaking out.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Labor Minister Ann R Lee says migrants are being scapegoaded
- 0:45Speaker 1: and there's racism against the Indian diaspora. The federal government's
- 0:50Speaker 1: launching a crackdown on dodgy NDIS providers in a bid
- 0:53Speaker 1: to stamp out fraud within the scheme that's supposed to
- 0:56Speaker 1: care for the most vulnerable. Australianstional Disability Insurance Scheme. Providers
- 1:02Speaker 1: will have to register with my ID previously known as
- 1:06Speaker 1: MyGov to ensure there's no identity fraud. The Australian has
- 1:11Speaker 1: been reporting on turmoil at one of the biggest providers
- 1:14Speaker 1: Cocoon SDA, which left employees and clients stranded. The government's
- 1:20Speaker 1: also planning an overhaul to take children with autism spectrum
- 1:23Speaker 1: disorder out of the NDIS system to control its ballooning costs.
- 1:28Speaker 1: A car has been rammed through the gates of Russia's
- 1:31Speaker 1: consulate in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. A thirty nine year old
- 1:35Speaker 1: man's been taken into custody as police try to ascertain
- 1:38Speaker 1: why the incident happened. Check out those stories live right
- 1:42Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot au and come
- 1:45Speaker 1: back to the front tomorrow for an enlightening episode about
- 1:48Speaker 1: the booming blockbuster adaptations of the Christian Story.