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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
- 0:04Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
- 0:10Speaker 1: Australia's own right wing populist politician Pauline Hanson is remarkable.
- 0:15Speaker 1: The Australians Associate editor Helen Trinker interviewed Farage in his
- 0:19Speaker 1: Seaside constituency of Clacton in Essex, just northeast of London,
- 0:25Speaker 1: where he's campaigning to win back his own seat in
- 0:28Speaker 1: a by election after resigning amid questions over donations he received.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Farage told Trinker he believed Australians were feeling the same
- 0:37Speaker 1: concerns about mass immigration that has driven the success of
- 0:41Speaker 1: his party in Britain.
- 0:43Speaker 2: What do you think depends.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Well, she never presents to me what she's not as
- 0:51Speaker 3: you remarkable, as she keeps gathering, she keeps Galley and
- 0:54Speaker 3: I think the establishment and in camera must must be
- 0:59Speaker 3: able to terrify.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Farage and Hanson met in London last week. The by
- 1:04Speaker 2: election on August thirteen will see Farage take on independent
- 1:07Speaker 2: and joke candidates, including one calling himself Count Binface, who
- 1:13Speaker 2: appears in public with a rubbish bin on his head.
- 1:15Speaker 2: The major parties are not contesting the election. You can
- 1:19Speaker 2: watch the video of Helen's encounter with Farage right now
- 1:22Speaker 2: on our website. Chinese diplomats have stormed out of the
- 1:27Speaker 2: Labour Party's fiftieth national conference after discovering that two Taiwanese
- 1:32Speaker 2: representatives were also at the meeting in Adelaide. The Chinese
- 1:36Speaker 2: representatives said they were not happy that Taiwan, which China
- 1:40Speaker 2: considers a rogue province, was allowed to be present at
- 1:43Speaker 2: the conference where Labour delegates are thrashing out changes to
- 1:47Speaker 2: the party platform, including on Palestine, workplace rights and the
- 1:51Speaker 2: resources sector. That's an exclusive.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Broken by our own Will Glasgow, and it's live right
- 1:57Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot Com dot u plus. Come
- 2:01Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning for
- 2:02Speaker 1: a conversation with the man who coined the phrase bachelor's handbag.
- 2:06Speaker 1: If you've got any young blokes in your life, you
- 2:09Speaker 1: know that means a supermarket roast chook. In his social
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- 2:24Speaker 2: Saturday morning,