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- 0:03Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
- 0:06Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Aboriginal protest groups said they didn't
- 0:12Speaker 1: want anti Israel demonstrators to gate crash their Australia Day protests,
- 0:16Speaker 1: but it's happened anyway, with chance of Interfada kicking off
- 0:20Speaker 1: at rallies to mark the two hundred and thirty eighth
- 0:23Speaker 1: anniversary of the first Fleet's arrival at Sydney Cove. While
- 0:36Speaker 1: most families around Australia celebrate a sweltering Australia Day with
- 0:40Speaker 1: beach swims, picnics and a lot of prawns, several cities
- 0:44Speaker 1: have seen demonstrators carrying signs about Invasion Day. An Australian
- 0:49Speaker 1: flag was burnt in Brisbane and rival protesters scuffled in Melbourne.
- 0:57Speaker 1: It's not a relaxing holiday for Susan Lee, with the
- 1:00Speaker 1: Liberal leader sweating on two leadership rivals who want her
- 1:03Speaker 1: job and neither is offering any public support. Andrew Hasty
- 1:08Speaker 1: said today he wouldn't be commenting on the party's crisis
- 1:11Speaker 1: after it lost its Nationals coalition partner last week. Opposition
- 1:16Speaker 1: Defense spokesman Angus Taylor repeatedly refused to rule out making
- 1:20Speaker 1: a move on the leadership, saying only the party needs
- 1:23Speaker 1: to do better. The Australian's Lachlan Leming repeatedly asked Taylor
- 1:28Speaker 1: about the leadership. He said he couldn't comment because he's
- 1:31Speaker 1: a senior member of Shadow Cabinet.
- 1:33Speaker 2: And one last time, are you can you explicitly rule
- 1:37Speaker 2: out a leadership all the chatters it's yourself and Andrew
- 1:40Speaker 2: Hasty needs short it out on the right.
- 1:42Speaker 3: You'll keep trying plugging And as you know of a
- 1:44Speaker 3: member of Shadow Cabinet and I one of those obligations
- 1:47Speaker 3: and we made a point about those obligations cabinet in
- 1:51Speaker 3: recent day.
- 1:52Speaker 4: Susan hasn't and I think that's important.
- 1:55Speaker 3: We have to be united if we're going to succeed.
- 1:57Speaker 4: This is incredibly important, and I think honoring that unity,
- 2:03Speaker 4: making sure we demonstrate to Australians that we have a
- 2:06Speaker 4: sense of purpose that is aligned with their aspirations, that's
- 2:10Speaker 4: the key right now.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at The Australian
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- 2:25Speaker 1: stars and the Titans who own the networks go rogue.