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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
- 0:05Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Queen Camilla has revealed her struggle
- 0:10Speaker 1: to stay silent about King Charles's health after her husband
- 0:13Speaker 1: was diagnosed with cancer. Speaking at the opening of a
- 0:17Speaker 1: cancer center at a London hospital, the Queen said the
- 0:20Speaker 1: ten days between Charles's diagnosis and the public revelation of
- 0:23Speaker 1: his cancer, which has never been specified, were painful.
- 0:28Speaker 2: I was just longed to let it out, but obviously
- 0:32Speaker 2: I couldn't. That was quite difficult. I almost said that,
- 0:36Speaker 2: and I felt that it whilst at the time to say.
- 0:41Speaker 1: The Queen's revelation comes after it was announced Charles Spencer,
- 0:45Speaker 1: brother of the King's first wife Diana, will publish a book.
- 0:49Speaker 1: It's titled Swan Song Diana My Sister and will be
- 0:52Speaker 1: released in September. Diana is buried on an island on
- 0:56Speaker 1: the earl of Spencer's estate in Northamptonshire. Aboriginal leader Marcia
- 1:02Speaker 1: Langton says the pro Palestine movement has stoked racism in Australia. Langton,
- 1:08Speaker 1: one of Australia's most respected Indigenous writers and academics, told
- 1:12Speaker 1: the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion the government
- 1:16Speaker 1: should establish a national agency to deal with prejudice. Langton
- 1:20Speaker 1: said she had been targeted by anti Israel activists. Five
- 1:26Speaker 1: Sydney Swan's players have been stood down for the remainder
- 1:29Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty six AFL season while Victoria Police
- 1:32Speaker 1: investigate an alleged sexual assault in Melbourne. On Sunday, the
- 1:36Speaker 1: Swans confirmed the suspension of Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, Nick Blakey,
- 1:40Speaker 1: James Jordan and Riley Biss. On Wednesday, the club said
- 1:44Speaker 1: the sanctions relate to the player's breach of club standards,
- 1:47Speaker 1: not the police investigation. Victoria Police's Sex Crimes Squad are
- 1:52Speaker 1: investigating an alleged incident in which a woman who was
- 1:55Speaker 1: invited to attend one of the player's rooms at the
- 1:57Speaker 1: Pullman Hotel in East Melbourne said she was quote inappropriately touched.
- 2:02Speaker 1: No one's been charged in relation to that alleged incident.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
- 2:10Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front
- 2:13Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at the
- 2:15Speaker 1: appeal by convicted mushroom killer Aaron Patterson. Plus a bid
- 2:19Speaker 1: by the Crown to keep her in jail for longer.
- 2:22Speaker 1: That's right here, Thursday morning,