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Albo wants on the UN Security Council · 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. Anthony Alberzi wants a seat on
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful body in world affairs, the United Nations
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  Speaker 1: Security Council. Albanesi, in his first address to the UN
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  Speaker 1: General Assembly as Prime Minister, called for the UN to
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  Speaker 1: reform itself after Donald Trump's wild attack earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 2: Not only is the UN not solving the problems it should,
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  Speaker 2: too often, it's actually creating new problems for us to solve.
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  Speaker 1: Albanzi said, Middle powers like Australia are crucial to the
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  Speaker 1: world's peace and stability.
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  Speaker 3: The United Nations is much more than an arena for
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  Speaker 3: the great powers to veto each other's ambitions. In twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, we are confronted by all manner of challenges
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  Speaker 3: in old forms and new Dictators whose hold on power
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  Speaker 3: derived solely from their capacity for cruelty to their own citizens,
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  Speaker 3: tyrants who invade sovereign nations to further their own ambitions,
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  Speaker 3: Regimes willing to crush their own people, terrorists and states
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  Speaker 3: which sponsored terrorism, spreading hatred. And if ever we had
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  Speaker 3: the luxury of imagining the breaches of international law were
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  Speaker 3: not our concern, or that conflict and turmoil in another
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  Speaker 3: part of the world could not affect us. Those days
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  Speaker 3: are long gone.
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  Speaker 1: Smiggle is one of Australia's most successful retailers, but behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes there's a huge drama going on. Owner Solomon Lou,
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  Speaker 1: who's a billionaire, has made damaging allegations against a so
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  Speaker 1: called mob of former executives at Smiggle's parent company, Premier Investments.
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  Speaker 1: Lou claimed at a press conference on Thursday, there was
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  Speaker 1: a culture of drinking and gambling in the workplace. This
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  Speaker 1: has been denied by legal representatives for at least one
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  Speaker 1: of the former execs. Check out that story live right
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  Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning.