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Bruce Lehrmann fails to show up in court · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A new twist in the story
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  Speaker 1: of Bruce Lahmon, the former political staffer who's now facing
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  Speaker 1: a charge of vehicle theft in the Tasmanian courts. Lehman
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  Speaker 1: was listed to appear in the Magistrates Court at Hobart
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday morning in relation to the alleged theft in
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  Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four of a toyotoprado belonging to a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Gail Denise Oates. Lemon has denied the offense
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  Speaker 1: and his lawyer has indicated it will be defended. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: court officers called Lemon's name that he didn't appear. Magistrate
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  Speaker 1: Robert Webster said Lemon's lawyer, Zalie Burrows told the court
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  Speaker 1: by email she'd apparently misunderstood whether the proceeding was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a mention, a brief procedural affair or a
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  Speaker 1: hearing where both she and Lhman would have appeared. The
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  Speaker 1: magistrate said Burrows had indicated Lamon was not available today
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  Speaker 1: due to an urgent medical issue. Slash tests a police prosecuted.
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  Speaker 1: He told the court he was ready to proceed with
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  Speaker 1: the matter, but the prosecutor also told the court that
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  Speaker 1: given Lehman's non appearance, he sought little option but to
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  Speaker 1: apply for a warrant to be issued for his arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Magistrate Webster said the matter would remain in his list
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  Speaker 1: for now. Smart Watchers, smart spectacles and all other wearable
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  Speaker 1: and digital recording devices are to be banned from New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales daycare centers under new laws which have passed
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  Speaker 1: the state's parliament. The new rules are a response to
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  Speaker 1: allegations of serial abuse in daycare centers by care as
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  Speaker 1: using mobile phones to record their crimes. New South Wales
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  Speaker 1: will also force all centers to display their history of
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  Speaker 1: compliance in a public area so parents know if there've
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  Speaker 1: been any regulatory actions. Educators will still be able to
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  Speaker 1: take photos of kids to share with parents, a standard
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  Speaker 1: practice for informing families of the day's activities, but it'll
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  Speaker 1: have to happen on center owned devices once permission has
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  Speaker 1: been obtained from parents. The penalties in the new law
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  Speaker 1: include more than three three thousand, four hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 1: individuals and up to fifty six thousand dollars for operators.
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