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More mortgage pain for Australian homeowners · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christine Ami it
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  Speaker 1: with the Front's afternoon headlines. There's more pain on the
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  Speaker 1: way for mortgage holders. The Reserve Bank raised the cash
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  Speaker 1: rate by a quarter of percent on Tuesday, taking it
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  Speaker 1: to four point one percent. It's the second rate hike
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  Speaker 1: this year and comes amid the ongoing conflict in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East. Here's RBA Governor Michelle Bullock.
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  Speaker 2: Higher petrol prices will add to inflation, but they're not
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  Speaker 2: the reason for today's decision. Inflation was already too high,
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  Speaker 2: reflecting the fact that demand is outstripping supply. If we
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  Speaker 2: do not act, these price pressures will spread and the
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  Speaker 2: eventual adjustment would be harder.
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  Speaker 1: The government's plan to shore up fuel supply to rural
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  Speaker 1: and regional areas has kicked in, but Energy Minister Chris
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  Speaker 1: Bowen has cautioned against panic buying.
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  Speaker 3: Because the fuel continues to arrive in Australia as expected,
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  Speaker 3: because the refineries are working very well and producing the
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  Speaker 3: diesel and the petrol and supplying the regions as quickly
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  Speaker 3: as they can to make up for the shortfall. Letter
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  Speaker 3: ows with one hundred percent spike in demand and it
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  Speaker 3: will take some time for the system to respond to that.
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  Speaker 3: But if we keep going with these supply measures, and
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  Speaker 3: if Australians respond in the spirit of all coming together
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  Speaker 3: and not panic buying, then that maximizes our chances of
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  Speaker 3: getting through this situation and that it's best that the
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  Speaker 3: market be allowed to operate.
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  Speaker 1: Bowhen reduced Australia's fuel quality standards last week in response
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  Speaker 1: to the Iran conflict, a move that's expected to bring
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  Speaker 1: more than seven hundred and fifty million liters of petrol
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  Speaker 1: and diesel into the market. The family members of alleged
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  Speaker 1: Bondai Beach guvernment Naved Akram have reportedly endured so called
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  Speaker 1: vigilanti harassment since his arrest. That's according to lawyers representing
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  Speaker 1: the accused perpetrator of Australia's worst ever terrorist attack. Navid
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  Speaker 1: and his father, fifty year old Sajd Akram, allegedly opened
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  Speaker 1: fire on a Hauneker by the Sea event at Bondai
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  Speaker 1: Beach on December fourteenth, killing fifteen innocent people, including a
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  Speaker 1: ten year old child. Sajid was shot dead by police
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  Speaker 1: at the scene, while Navid Akram was charged with more
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  Speaker 1: than fifty offenses after waking from a coma on December seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: He's currently on remand in Goldman's Supermax prison awaiting trial,
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  Speaker 1: and he's fighting to keep the names of his mother,
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  Speaker 1: brother and sister out of the press. Barrister Richard Wilson
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  Speaker 1: SC told the Downing Center Local Court on Tuesday, Navid
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  Speaker 1: Akram's family members shouldn't be subject to public scrutiny for
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  Speaker 1: quote having the misfortune of being related to alleged terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: Wilson said there's no suggestion the family members were involved
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  Speaker 1: in the alleged crime, or that the family home in
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  Speaker 1: Sydney's West was used as a quote staging post. The
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  Speaker 1: barrister argued information that identifies the family members could fall
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  Speaker 1: into the wrong hands what he called misguided and angry
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  Speaker 1: members of the public. In affidavits submitted to the court,
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  Speaker 1: the Acrams claimed they've received death threats online, over the
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  Speaker 1: phone and in person, and that their house had been vandalized.
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  Speaker 1: Barrister at Matthew Lewis SC contested the suppression application on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday on behalf of media organizations, including The Australian. Navid
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  Speaker 1: Akram has yet to enter a plea to the charges,
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  Speaker 1: which include fifteen counts of murder, forty counts of attempted
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  Speaker 1: murder and terrorism related offenses. Israel's Australian embassy has lashed
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  Speaker 1: a former Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, for claiming
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  Speaker 1: on ABC Radio the rape of Israeli women by Hummas
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  Speaker 1: militants on October seven, twenty twenty three had been quote debunked.
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  Speaker 4: So the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence and in
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  Speaker 4: Conflict has said that there are reasonable grounds to believe
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  Speaker 4: that conflict related second for violence occurred. Are you saying
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  Speaker 4: that that is propaganda?
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  Speaker 5: Awful things are being perpetrated by both sides. But this
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  Speaker 5: is not about what about them. This is not about
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  Speaker 5: selective outrage. I'm outraged by all of the violence. Would
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  Speaker 5: that we could get it all to stop.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a question as to whether you've condemned that
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  Speaker 4: portion of of what has occurred.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and that's a that's a that's a that's a
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  Speaker 6: that's a tactic of the bad faith actors is to
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  Speaker 6: is to is to trip try to trip people up,
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  Speaker 6: you know, to get them to condemn this and condemn that. Clearly,
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  Speaker 6: I don't support any of it, As I said, I
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  Speaker 6: am a human rights activist who advocates for the safety
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  Speaker 6: of all human beings, no matter their background, whether they
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  Speaker 6: are Jewish, whether they are Muslim, whether whether they are Christian,
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  Speaker 6: whether they you know, our atheist. It's it's it shouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: We shouldn't be here over arguing over brass tacks. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: just look at the hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 4: To be fair, let's not diminish what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: It it's rape and gang rape. Those are the allegations.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's arguing diminished.
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  Speaker 5: Any of those fish as someone who has been raped
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  Speaker 5: multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: In a social media post, the Israeli Embassy urged Tame
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  Speaker 1: to watch testimonies given by rape victims and educate herself
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  Speaker 1: and said she's quote lost her moral compass. Check out
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  Speaker 1: those stories live right now at the Australian dot com
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning for a change of pace. The
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